Roanna Gonsalves (Australia)
Roanna Gonsalves was born and brought up in Mumbai, India. She attended St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and came to Australia in 1998 as an international student. Her writing has been compared to the work of Alice Munro and Jhumpa Lahiri. She is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP), published in India and South Asia as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney (Speaking Tiger). The Permanent Resident won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Multicultural Prize 2018, and was longlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award 2018.
Roanna is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award, and is co-founder co-editor of Southern Crossings. She has a PhD (UNSW), has been an invited Keynote Speaker and panelist at numerous literary events. She has been facilitating creative writing workshops for all ages within communities as well as at schools and in the university sector for many years. She is a recipient of The Bridge Awards’ inaugural Varuna – Cove Park Writing Residency 2019 in Scotland. Roanna works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Sessional) at NYU Sydney. She currently serves on the Board of Writing NSW.
