ABOUT ME
I am a writer from Melbourne, Australia. I am currently studying English Literature and Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, UK.
I was studying Creative Writing at RMIT, focusing on poetry and short fiction as my majors. I identify firstly as a poet but also can't resist my urge to write short fiction.
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I spend my spare time reading, writing, and painting. Before I left Melbourne I took courses at CAE in Latin and Russian which have become a passion of mine. I have been studying Latin for two years and Russian for 6 months.
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I am very passionate about the publishing industry and have already gained experience in my few short years at university. There is a gap in my resume as I took a year off study to travel to Italy and for a short period assist with the bicentennial celebrations of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s works and deaths at the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome. It was an extremely rewarding experience seeing how poetry can bring together such passionate people from all over the world. I intend to travel back and become even more involved.
I am very much looking forward to the bicentennial celebration of 200 years since Shelley's death and have already booked my ticket to Italy and to all the events!
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My main focus academically would ideally be Romantic poetry and prose, combining both ecocriticism and ecological philosophy to help bring Romanticism back into relevance. I believe that they have so much still to teach us and that their naturalistic worldview is exactly what we need today.
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In terms of experience, I have interned for the Lifted Brow and loved every second of it. I did mundane tasks as the mail run, cleaning, and a lot of folding but I got to send out press release copies of Brow books, read for new fiction and non-fiction submissions, proofread comics, read potential manuscripts and proofread the upcoming issue of the Brow.
I also interned at ‘The Gazette’ as a part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival and got hands-on experience of leading a team of writers, editors, designers, and photographers. I also got to be heavily involved with students from the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT and in those few short weeks learned a lot of valuable editing skills that I use to this day. I also got to experience the author/editor relationship as I got to act and lead a team as both.
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I have also volunteered at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival last year in the box office and volunteer support. I loved to be giving back to a festival that has given me so many fond memories and unique experiences.
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I am very organised, hard-working, always punctual and I dedicate myself to performing any task I’m given to the best of my ability. I am experienced with reading and assessing submissions through my internship and also giving feedback to my peers in class as a poet. I am also a champion at coffee runs, stapling, filing, cleaning and am happy to undergo any task that betters the running of a publication or business.
