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'Kylie J Stevenson is a writer, reviewer and researcher whose work has appeared in Axon online journal, Australian Book Review and Readings Magazine, Melbourne. In 2010, Stevenson commenced a PhD at Edith Cowan University in a study of the creativity of artist-researchers in academia using the river as a metaphor for creative practice. She has been the recipient of five postgraduate scholarships and awards including a Commonwealth Cambridge Trust scholarship for studies at the University of Cambridge. She has completed two research theses: one on the practice of children's literature postgraduate students at The University of Cambridge; and one at RMIT University, a practice-led project including a novel and an exegesis analysing the creative writing process using Csikszentmihalyi's creativity theory. After completing this latter degree in 2004, Stevenson subsequently taught creative writing at RMIT University until 2008. She has lived in Melbourne, the United Kingdom, and Perth, Western Australia, to undertake her PhD studies.' (Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language: Vol. 5: Iss. 2, Article 20. )