Robyn Cadwallader

Robyn Cadwalladers first novel, The Anchoress, will be published by Faber & Faber in the UK, Farrar Straus and Giroux in the US and Fourth Estate in Australia in early 2015. She has published numerous poems, prize-winning short stories and reviews, as well as a book of poetry, i painted unafraid (Wakefield Press, 2010) and a non-fiction book based on her PhD thesis concerning attitudes to virginity and female agency in the Middle Ages. She lectured in English literature at Flinders University, teaching a range of topics, but specialising in medieval literature and creative writing. At adult education and community level she facilitated short courses on creative writing, journalling and medieval culture.