Michelle Cahill

Michelle Cahill is a Goan-Anglo-Indian poet and author who lives in Sydney. Her first collection of short stories is Letter to Pessoa (Giramondo). She received the Val Vallis Award, the Hilary Mantel International Short Story Prize and has been shortlisted in several prizes including the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize. Her most recent poetry collection is The Herring Lass (Arc, UK.)

Works By Michelle Cahill

Interceptionality, or The Ambiguity of the Albatross
My activism has been a way of protecting my creativity; it is a way of nourishing and reviving what withers, interiorly, when we are silenced by ideologies, or when we become centred ourselves within cultural frames.
6 Aug. 2018
I Am Doubt Itself: Criticism, Narrative, Ethics
Can we separate the authority of the authored text from that of the critic whose skill is to establish credibility by providing reasoning for her appraisal?
22 May. 2017
True Colours: The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
What was it like growing up black in Kellyville in suburban Sydney in the 1980s? In her memoir, Maxine Beneba Clarke unflinchingly reveals the co-dependency of victims and perpetrators; the self-hatred resulting from the hatred of others that raci...
15 Dec. 2016
Intimate perspectives
The vanishing of expression, voice and authorship is integral to El-Zein’s writing. There are arguments being made in The Secret Maker of the World for the aesthetic, ethical and political aspects of the encounter between world and text, though wi...
23 Sept. 2014

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Michelle Cahill

Works By Michelle Cahill

Interceptionality, or The Ambiguity of the Albatross

I Am Doubt Itself: Criticism, Narrative, Ethics

True Colours: The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke

Intimate perspectives

Works Featuring Michelle Cahill

For There She is, Out of the Shadow

Letters to Who? On Michelle Cahill