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Biography
Gemma Nisbet is a writer and academic living and working on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. She completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Western Australia in mid-2023, researching objects, memory and the personal essay. She has a professional background in travel journalism, and has taught Creative Writing and English & Literary Studies at UWA and Curtin University, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at UWA. Her work has appeared in publications including Westerly, TEXT, Australian Book Review, AXON, Meniscus, and The West Australian.
Her first book, The Things We Live With: Essays on Uncertainty, was published by Upswell in October 2023, and was shortlisted for the 2024 WA Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer.
Education/Academic qualification
Creative Writing, PhD, The Things We Live With: Essaying the Active Memory Object, The University of Western Australia
Jun 2019 → Jun 2023
Award Date: 1 Jun 2023
External positions
Sessional academic, Murdoch University
Aug 2024 → …
Sessional academic, Curtin University
28 Feb 2020 → …
Industry keywords
- Creative Arts
- Communications
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Objects as Armour; Objects as Container: Form and Thing-Writing as Means of Balancing Disclosure in Life Writing
Nisbet, G., Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Life Writing. 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review of “Kintsugi” by Marie O’Rourke
Nisbet, G., 2024, In: Westerly. OnlineResearch output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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The Things We Live With: Essays on Uncertainty
Nisbet, G., 3 Oct 2023, Collingwood: Upswell. 154 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The Things We Live With: Essaying the Active Memory-Object
Nisbet, G., 2023, (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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Objects as armour; objects as container: Writing things as a means of balancing disclosure in life writing
Nisbet, G., Dec 2022, (Unpublished).Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera