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Katrina Finlayson is a creative writer and independent researcher, working mostly in creative nonfiction. She was awarded a doctorate in creative writing by Flinders University in 2017, for a thesis exploring how the Uncanny might be useful for contemporary creative writers, and earlier she received the Staff Prize in English (2002), the Richard Conyers Prize (2007) and Ann Flaxman Prize in English (2007), and the Ecobusiness Consultants Prize (2007) for creative nonfiction. Katrina’s personal and critical essays explore ideas about strangeness, place and displacement, home and travel, and the nature and significance of memory and identity.