Jacqueline Rule
Author of Literary Fiction
based in NSW
Dr Jacqueline Rule is an Australian author who holds a PhD in English from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English from Goldsmiths College, University of London (International Programme) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She is the winner of the University of London’s 150th Anniversary Prize for academic achievement in English Literature.
Her PhD focused on the intersections between literature and law, narrative ethics and interpretative practices and the representation of historical trauma through the form of the novel. She has worked in research, teaching and academic governance at the University of Sydney and UTS.
Jacqueline is admitted as a solicitor by the Supreme Court of New South Wales and spent several years working in a legal organisation, supporting a specialist committee on youth detention in the criminal justice system.
The Leaves (Spinifex Press, 2024) is her debut novel.
