Kerryn Goldsworthy

Dr. Kerryn Lee Goldsworthy (born May 14, 1953) is an Australian freelance writer and retired academic.cite web
url=http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/author.asp?id=4547
title=Kerryn Goldsworthy
publisher=ON LINE Opinion
accessdate=2007-04-29]

Kerryn Goldsworthy has a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide.cite web
url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A(e5
title=Goldsworthy, Kerryn (a.k.a. Goldsworthy, Kerryn Lee)
publisher=AustLit
accessdate=2007-04-29] She taught at the University of Melbourne from 1981 to 1997 as a tutor and lecturer and has also worked briefly at Deakin, Flinders and Adelaide Universities, and at the University of Klagenfurt, in Austria. She was the editor of the "Australian Book Review" (May 1986 to Dec 1987), decades later she claimed that the experience involved her "learning more about human nature in those two years than in either the preceding thirty-three or the following nineteen."cite web
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Goldsworthy also served as a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and has also been the recipient of Australia Council grants allocated from its Literature Fund. [cite web
url=http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-May-1998/goldsworthy2.html
title=Needing His Signature
publisher=Australian Humanities Review
accessdate=2007-04-30]

In 1997, Kerryn Goldsworthy returned to Adelaide and turned to freelance writing. She was a judge of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award for a year, until she resigned, along with two other judges, over a charter that changed the decision-making powers of the judges. [cite web
url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/Books/Judges-storm-out-of-Miles-Franklin-prize/2004/12/21/1103391774639.html
title=Judges storm out of Miles Franklin literary prize
author=Susan Wyndham
publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald
date=2004-12-22
accessdate=2007-04-29] She has also served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide [cite web
url=http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/humanities/people/english/
title=School of Humanities: Research Fellows / Adjuncts
publisher=University of Adelaide
accessdate=2007-04-29] where she is a guest teacher in the Graduate Certificate course in Food Writing. She also writes for a number of weblogs, principally her own called "A Fugitive Phenomenon" which is "dedicated to the discussion of literature past and present: information, opinions, gossip, hearsay, scuttlebutt etc."

Goldsworthy's political views are left-wing. She once described herself as "an old fashioned feminist." [cite web
url=http://blogs.smh.com.au/entertainment/archives/2007/03/
title=Rich New Award for Feminist Fiction
author=Susan Wyndham
publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald
date=2007-03-31
accessdate=2007-05-04]

Published works

Kerryn Goldsworthy has edited four anthologies of Australian writing. She has also written many articles, essays and reviews. [cite web
url=http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/browse.html#G
title=Articles by author
publisher=Australian Humanities Review
accessdate=2007-04-29] [cite web
url=http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/items-by-author?author=Goldsworthy%2C+Kerryn&order=title
title=Items for Author "Goldsworthy, Kerryn"
publisher=Finders Academics Commons
accessdate=2007-04-29]

* "North of Moonlight Sonata", Mcphee Gribble Publish Pty Ltd (1989), ISBN 978-0869141687
* "Coast to Coast", HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd (November 1, 1986), ISBN 978-0207153006
* "Australian Love Stories", Oxford University Press (1997), ISBN 978-0195506013
* "Australian Women's Stories" (edited by Kerryn Goldsworthy), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0195512953
* "Australian Short Stories", J.M. Dent & Sons (1986), ASIN B000J6Z1TK
* "Helen Garner (Australian Writers series)", Oxford University Press, USA (May 1, 1997), ISBN 978-0195532814

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External links

* [http://pavlovblog.blogspot.com/ Blog]