Brenda Walker

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Brenda Walker was born in New South Wales in 1957. She studied at the University of New England in Armidale and, after gaining a PhD in English at the Australian National University, she moved to Perth in 1984. She now lectures in English at the University of Western Australia.
The Fremantle Arts Centre Press published her first novel, Crush, in 1991. It won the 1990 T.A.G. Hungerford Award for fiction and was short-listed for the Western Australian Premier's Award. Other novels are One More River (1993) and Poe's Cat (1999).
She has co-edited three books, Katharine Susannah Prichard centenary essays with John Hay in 1984, Poetry & Gender with David Brooks in 1989 and Elizabeth Jolley: new critical essays with Delys Bird in 1991.
In 1996 Walker edited Risks, an anthology of short stories. Walker also contributed to Motherlove, edited by Debra Adelaide and has published a number of articles and reviews in the field of contemporary Australian women's writing.

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