Josephine Taylor

Summary

Josephine Taylor is a writer and editor and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University. Her debut novel, Eye of a Rook, was shortlisted in the WA Premier’s Book Awards, and her short-form creative and critical writing has been published widely. Josephine is available as a teacher, mentor, moderator, judge and manuscript assessor.

Biography

Josephine Taylor is a writer, editor and educator, and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University. Her debut novel, Eye of a Rook, which used her award-winning PhD thesis as source material, was published in 2021 and subsequently shortlisted in 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, Westerly and, most recently, Australian Feminist Studies (co-authored paper). Josephine is regularly requested as a teacher, mentor, editor, judge and festival moderator. Her research interests include female disorder, with a focus on vulvodynia; chronic pain and disability; the creative response to disorder; Australian fiction, especially from emerging authors; and fiction dystopias. Josephine was a 2022 Emerging Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, where she began work on her second novel. She also continues to write articles, personal essays, short fiction and poetry.

Relevant qualifications

2023 Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Edith Cowan University
2019 Professional Member, Institute of Professional Editors
2011 PhD (Writing), Edith Cowan University (Postgraduate Research Scholarship)
2000 Advanced Diploma (Psychotherapy), The Churchill Clinic
1984 BA (1st class Honours, English), University of Western Australia

Recent experience

2024 Multiple writing workshops (Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Wanneroo Library, Mandurah Library)
2024 Mentoring, Emerging Writers Program
2024 'An EWP Primer' presentation, Writing WA
2024 Moderator, Perth Festival Writers Weekend and Mandurah Readers and Writers Festival
2024 Editing, Fremantle Press