Tessa Lunney
About the author

Tessa Lunney

Tessa Lunney is a novelist, poet, and occasional academic. In 2016 she won the prestigious Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature for 'Chess and Dragonflies' and the A Room Of Her Own Foundation Orlando Prize for Fiction for her story 'Those Ebola Burners Them'. She was also the recipient of a Varuna Fellowship. In 2013, she graduated from Western Sydney University with a Doctorate of Creative Arts that explored silence in Australian war fiction.In 2014 she was awarded an Australia Council ArtStart grant for literature. Her poetry, short fiction, and reviews have been published in Best Australian Poems 2014, Southerly, Cordite,Griffith Review, and the Australian Book Review, among others.

Books by Tessa Lunney

Tessa Lunney Articles

Podcast: Women Writing Women with Tessa Lunney

Podcast

18 June 2018

Podcast: Women Writing Women with Tessa Lunney

    Ooh La La: Q&A with Tessa Lunney about her book April in Paris, 1921

    News

    18 June 2018

    Ooh La La: Q&A with Tessa Lunney about her book April in Paris, 1921

      Debutante, nurse, gossip writer, spy... Start Reading April in Paris, 1921 by Tessa Lunney

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      5 June 2018

      Debutante, nurse, gossip writer, spy... Start Reading April in Paris, 1921 by Tessa Lunney

        Sex, spies...and a lost Picasso: April in Paris, 1921, by Tessa Lunney

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        4 June 2018

        Sex, spies...and a lost Picasso: April in Paris, 1921, by Tessa Lunney