Dr Rowena Lennox is the author of Dingo Bold: the life and death of K’gari dingoes (Sydney University Press, 2021) and Fighting Spirit of East Timor (Pluto/Zed, 2000), winner of 2001 NSW Premier’s General History Award. Rowena’s writing has been widely published and has been awarded the Australasian Association of Writing Programs Postgraduate Creative Writing Prize and a Griffith Review Queensland Writing Fellowship. 

Rowena teaches creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney. She holds a doctorate in creative arts from the University of Technology Sydney, a masters in creative writing from Western Sydney University and a BA with honours in English literature from the University of Sydney.

With more than 25 years experience in book publishing, Rowena was program manager for the second Residential Editorial Program and a Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow, which enabled her to spend 12 weeks in New York investigating how books that think about history and politics through the prism of personality are positioned in the market. She has been a writing mentor for the South Coast Writers Centre, editor of the Australasian Animal Studies Association’s online journal Animail, and a Reading Australia ambassador.

Her recent scholarly publications explore the interview as a collaborative arts practice; engage narrative theory to analyse dingo management; trace connections between historical and contemporary attitudes to and treatment of dingoes; situate contemporary treatment of specific dingoes in broader historical and political-cultural contexts; interrogate settler colonial epistemology around dingoes; and explore dingoes as cultural mediators. She continues to research and write about dingoes and settler colonialism.

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