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Lyn Dickens Lyn Dickens i(A140762 works by)
Born: Established: Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Lyn Dickens is of Singaporean Peranakan and Anglo-Celtic Australian ancestry, and was born in Western Australia and raised in Adelaide and Sydney. She holds a doctorate from the University of Sydney, and has also studied at Cambridge. She has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Southern Cross University. She later undertook a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, where she was a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice: while there, she co-founded the Saltbush Review.

Dickens has held a Asialink Arts Residency (2017) and participated in WriteNow London (2017). Her work has been longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize (Cambridge) and the Richell Prize.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 recipient Write It! Fellowship for 'Intertidal'.
2018 shortlisted Deborah Cass Prize for 'The Resurrection of Tuesday Goodman'.
2016 longlisted The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for 'Birdwatching the Erinyes'.
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