Fiona Place

Fiona Place has always been interested in women, language and identity. She is the author of Cardboard: A Woman Left for Dead, which won the National Book Council Qantas Award for New Writers in 1990. It is a novel about one woman’s life-threatening eating disorder and eventual hard-won recovery. She has written numerous short stories and poems published in literary journals including Meanjin, Southerly and Westerly. She has also worked as a financial commentator for major newspapers including The Australian Financial Review and The Australian. Today she combines motherhood with her work as a writer and an advocate for people with intellectual disabilities. Her essays on disability appear in peer-reviewed journals including Down Syndrome Research and Practice.