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In 2016, Meg Brayshaw was a doctoral candidate at the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University, focusing on representations of Sydney in fiction by Australian women writers. In the same year, she was the recipient of the Abbie Clancy Award.

Dr Brayshaw was awarded her PhD in June 2018, for a dissertation entitled Reflection Tides: The Aqueous Poetics of Sydney in Women’s Fiction, 1934-1947. She has published on Eleanor Dark, Elizabeth Harrower, and Christina Stead, and served on the editorial staff of Australian Literary Studies. In 2019, she was on the staff of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.

Sources: Australian Literary Studies; University of Sydney.