Josephine Wilson (writer)

Josephine Wilson is an Australian writer and academic. She lives in Perth, Western Australia. She was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to live in Australia with her family at the age of six. She writes essays, poetry and fiction. She has a Masters of Philosophy from the University of Queensland and a PhD from University of Western Australia. In September 2017, Wilson won the Miles Franklin Award for her second novel, "Extinctions" (UWA Publishing, 2016). This book had won the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2016. It won the 2017 Colin Roderick Award, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
Wilson has worked as a sessional staff member at Murdoch, University of Western Australia, and Curtin University, lecturing in performance studies, creative writing, and the history of art and design.