Josephine Taylor
Author of Literary Fiction
based in WA
Josephine Taylor is a writer, editor and educator, and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University (ECU). Her 2011 PhD in Creative Writing received the ECU Faculty Research Medal and the Magdalena Prize in Feminist Research (co-winner), after which she lectured at ECU in creative writing and Australian Fiction. In 2017 Josephine was appointed Associate Editor at the literary journal Westerly at the University of Western Australia, a position she held until 2022. Her debut novel, Eye of a Rook, was published in 2021 and subsequently shortlisted in the Emerging category of the WA Premier’s Book Awards. Her creative and critical writing has been anthologised and published widely, including in Australian Book Review, Axon, Meniscus, Outskirts, Southerly, TEXT and, most recently, Australian Feminist Studies (co-authored paper). Josephine is regularly requested as a teacher, judge and festival moderator in literary fiction and creative non-fiction, and remains busy as a freelance editor, mentor and manuscript assessor. Her research interests include female disorder; chronic pain and disability; Australian fiction; and speculative environmental dystopias in fiction. Her current research and writing project, the dream detective, bridges the arts and science, focusing on the effects of plastic on humans in a distant future.
