Coppering—my essay on regrowth both after bushfire and an eating disorder—will appear in the winter 2018 issue of Meanjin. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Horne Prize, supported by The Saturday Paper and Aesop x

(Image: The day after Black Saturday [Alice Bishop and Lynne Bishop]—Sunday 8 February 2009. Photo by Leon Bishop)

"I was twenty-three the year our house was swallowed up by the climate-flared East Kilmore fire—a bushfire that had the reported radiant heat of two Hiroshima bombs ..."