| Josephine Wilson | |
| Birth Place: | Lincolnshire, England |
| Occupation: | Writer and academic |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Notableworks: | Extinctions |
| Awards: | 2017 Miles Franklin Award |
| Years Active: | 1994- |
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).
She writes essays, poetry and fiction.
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her second novel, Extinctions (UWA Publishing, 2016).[2] This book had won the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2016.[3] It also won the 2017 Colin Roderick Award, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.[4]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]