Heather Taylor-Johnson

Heather Taylor-Johnson lives on Kaurna land. Her most recent poetry book is I Lost Someone Then Found Them In My Body. She’s the editor of Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of Chronic Illness and Pain, read in disability circles around the world. Her latest novel is a work of autofiction called Little Bit. Her novel Jean Harley was Here was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Fiction. With her essays on illness and art, she won Island’s Nonfiction Prize and was shortlisted for ABR’s Calibre Prize, and she received an Arts Fellowship from Create SA and a 3-month residency at the Keesing Studio in Paris through Creative Australia to write more. She’s an arts critic and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, where she also earned her PhD in Creative Writing. She runs a modest writers’ residency in South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula.