The Bearcat

Georgia Rose Phillips is an award-winning writer who publishes fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, literary criticism and academic scholarship. Her creative non-fiction novella, Holocene, was runner-up in the 2018 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, and her short story ‘New Balance’ was a fiction winner in the 2021 Ultimo Prize. In 2022, her short story ‘Beyond the Marram Grass’ was a shortlisted finalist in the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) Prize. Georgia is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of New South Wales.