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Notes to Myself

How old are you and how long have you been writing?

I’m 48. I’ve always written, but for a long time I did it around the edges of everything else in my life. I travelled and lived in other places, worked all kinds of jobs. I was an actor and theatre maker and I spent years in Australia immersed in social justice and environmental activism. Between my mid-20s and my late 30s, I wrote a collection

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