Dr Julienne Van Loon

Biography

Julienne van Loon is the author of three novels, most recently the critically acclaimed Harmless (2013). Her first novel, Road Story (2005), won The Australian/Vogel's award and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book) award and the WA Premier's Award for Fiction. She has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Australia Council for the Arts, the WA Department of Culture and the Arts, Copyright Agency Limited and Arts Victoria. In 2017 she was a resident at the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa. Julienne's essays and short stories have appeared in journals such as The Monthly, Griffith Review and the Sydney Review of Books, and in anthologies published by Pan MacMillan, Fremantle Press, ABC Books and Black Inc. Alongside her work as a writer of fiction and nonfiction, Julienne has made a significant contribution to teaching and research in the Creative Writing discipline as a Higher Degree Research (HDR) supervisor. She has been the principle supervisor for 7 PhD thesis completions and 5 Masters-by-Research thesis completions. Publications by her HDR graduates have garnered two TAG Hungerford Awards, a Calibre Essay Prize and a WA Premier's Book Award, and have been either short- or long-listed for the National Biography Award, the Miles Franklin Award and The Australian/Vogel's Award and the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction.

Research Interest

contemporary literary fiction