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SSOA AUTHORS

Authors published by Sydney School of Arts & Humanities represent a wide range of interests, from human relationships, nature and the environment, to innovative ideas in the study of spirituality, society and politics. Their publications range from memoir, novels and short story to poetry and the essay form. You can find out more about each author on their profile pages linked below.

Robert Carrick

Robert Carrick

Robert Carrick, author, is also a musician, playing trombone in a Sydney band, and an audio engineer

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Lawrence Goodstone

Lawrence Goodstone

Lawrence Goodstone says he is now in a position to create stories from a life well lived. His collection of short stories featuring sna . . .

Ferdinando Manzo

Ferdinando Manzo

Ferdinando Manzo is a journalist, currently working with La Fiamma in Sydney, who writes fiction and poetry in both Italian and English . . .

Sara Hess Roney

Sara Hess Roney

Sara Hess Roney holds an MFA in Speech and Drama from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is a former student of Paul Baker. . . .

Peter Stankovic

Peter Stankovic

Peter A Stankovic retired from a career in finance to take up full-time writing. He has self-published several crime stories and his no . . .

Christine Williams

Christine Williams

Dr Christine Williams is the author of four biographical works and a short story collection and has had work published in Australia, th . . .

Damian Cooper

Damian Cooper

Damian Cooper lives in the Blue Mountains where he works with disadvantaged youth, and has written a memoir of his own childhood. . . .

Diane Harding

Diane Harding

Diane Harding is a retired teacher who now writes thrillers. . . .

Wil Roach

Wil Roach

Wil Roach has completed the first book of a 3-part memoir, Black Gay & Underage: A Memoir of London. He has also had several short stor . . .

Leo Ryan

Leo Ryan

Leo Ryan (deceased 2019) was a counsellor for the major part of his working life. Early in his career he became aware of the number of . . .

Syam Sudhakar

Syam Sudhakar

Syam Sudhakar is an award-winning bilingual poet who writes in English and Malayalam. Holding a PhD in English Literature from the Univ . . .

Nicky Gluch

Nicky Gluch

A young Jewish Australian woman explores that which divides us – religion, language, country – and finds that which unites us in music. . . .

Sao Khemawadee Mangrai

Sao Khemawadee Mangrai

Sao Khemawadee (now deceased) was born in Hsipaw, in the northern Shan state of Burma, now known as Myanmar. Her husband was imprisoned . . .

Rossco Robertson

Rossco Robertson

Now working in IT and graphic design for a telecommunications provider, Rossco dedicates his free time to surfing, snowboarding, painti . . .

Jenny Sheldon

Jenny Sheldon

Former English teacher, Jenny Sheldon was left unable to speak after suffering a stroke. Her first book, I Will: A Memoir of Stroke, Re . . .

Geetha Waters

Geetha Waters

Geetha Walters has worked at the Krishnamurti Centre at Summer Hill, Sydney, and writes about her childhood in India in the 1960s and 7 . . .

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