Josephine Wilson
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| Born | Lincolnshire, England |
| Occupation | Writer and academic |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 1994- |
| Notable works | Extinctions |
| Notable awards | 2017 Miles Franklin Award |
Josephine Wilson is an Australian writer and academic based in Perth, Western Australia.[1]
Wilson was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to live in Australia with her family at the age of six. She has a Masters of Philosophy from the University of Queensland and a PhD from University of Western Australia (UWA).[2]
She writes essays, poetry and fiction.[2]
In September 2017, Wilson won the Miles Franklin Award for her second novel, Extinctions (UWA Publishing, 2016).[2] This book had won the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2016.[3] It also won the 2017 Colin Roderick Award, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.[4]
Wilson lives in Perth and teaches creative writing and literary theory at Murdoch University. She has been a sessional teacher at UWA and Curtin University, lecturing in performance studies, creative writing, and the history of art and design.[5]
Wilson was a writer-in-residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs (2019), and an Asialink resident in Shanghai (2018).[6]
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