Jessica White
Dr Jessica White is the author of the novels A Curious Intimacy and Entitlement, and a hybrid memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud, which won the 2020 Michael Crouch Award for a debut work of biography and was shortlisted for four national awards, including the Prime Ministers Literary Award for Non-fiction.
Jessica has received funding from the Australia Research Council, Creative Australia, the Copyright Agency, Arts Queensland and Arts South Australia and has undertaken national and international residencies and fellowships.
Jessica is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of South Australia, and chief investigator on the ARC Discovery Project Finding Australia’s Disabled Authors: Connection, Creativity, Community. She is also co-founder and Chief Advisory Board Member of Science Write Now, a journal of creative writing and art inspired by science. Her latest book is Silence is My Habitat.