James Halford

James Halford is the author of Requiem with Yellow Butterflies (UWAP 2019), a Latin America travel memoir. His creative nonfiction, fiction and criticism have been widely published in Australia and abroad. The recipient of a 2016 Copyright Agency/Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics Fellowship, his critical work focuses on comparative approaches to contemporary Australian and Latin American literature. He holds a literature degree and a creative doctorate from the University of Queensland, where he now teaches, and has studied Spanish in Argentina, Mexico and Spain.