Debra Adelaide

Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of more than 15 books, including several novels, anthologies, and collections of short fiction. She is an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney where she teaches postgraduate creative writing and undergraduate creative reading. Her most recent book is the short story collection, Zebra, and her next book, TheInnocent Reader: reflections on reading and writing, will be published in October.

Works By Debra Adelaide

Conversation with a Fox
I need to go back to that daylight encounter in Homer Street and walk up to that fox, and look it in the eye. I need to have a better conversation with that fox, a more honest one.
15 Oct. 2019

Works Featuring Debra Adelaide

To Me They Were Treasures
The word clicked something into place. Bibliomemoir: it was books that had helped me to do this, because I didn’t know any other way to do this. I didn’t think there was anything remarkable about this way of writing the self while I was doing it:...
11 Feb. 2020
What To Leave Out
Two memoirs, one fiction? Or one family history, two fictions entwined into a single narrative, and a ‘reflection on the arc of a life’? All three of these books show women writing themselves into being, as they construct narrative from the raw ma...
9 Feb. 2016

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Debra Adelaide

Works By Debra Adelaide

Conversation with a Fox

Works Featuring Debra Adelaide

To Me They Were Treasures

What To Leave Out