Roanna Gonsalves
Roanna Gonsalves is an award-winning author and educator. Her book The Permanent Resident, published in India and South Asia as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney, won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Multicultural Prize 2018, and was longlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award 2018. She is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award, and a UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award.
Roanna has been teaching, supervising and mentoring emerging prose writers and screenwriters within communities, schools, literary organisations and institutions such as New York University Sydney, Western Sydney University, Macquarie University, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).