Janie Conway-Herron |
Novelist, poet,
musician and songwriter, Janie Conway Herron, comes from a well-known Australian
musical family and has played in numerous bands in inner-city Melbourne and
Sydney as well as touring nationally. After Janie gained her doctorate in
Creative Writing at the University of Western Sydney she coordinated the
writing program at Southern Cross University in Lismore NSW for more than
fifteen years.
Janie has appeared at conferences and writers’ festivals in Australia and
overseas. Her essays, poems and short stories have been
published in a range of journals and anthologies. Cockatoo Books published her
first novel, Beneath the Grace of Clouds, in 2010. Since 2004 Janie has regularly
conducted creative writing workshops with Burmese refugees for the NGO Altsean
Burma. The resulting anthologies of refugee stories have been distributed
internationally, and Janie’s work with refugees has been recognised in Europe
and South East Asia.
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