Josephine Wilson is a Perth-based writer, poet and teacher.

Josephine received the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015 for her manuscript of Extinctions, a work which would go on to receive the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Colin Roderick Award, and also be shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction.

Josephine’s first novel was Cusp (2005), and her early works include Customs and The Geography of Haunted Places with Erin Hefferon. She has taught at Murdoch, the University of Western Australia, and Curtin University. 

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The Garret is committed to accessibility and education. The transcript of Josephine’s interview is available at www.thegarretpodcast.com/josephine-wilson.