Lyn Dickens
Lyn Dickens is an award-winning writer, editor, and academic living in South Australia. She is the 2024 winner of the Arts SA Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award for her novel Salt upon the Water as part of the South Australian Literary Awards.
Lyn’s writing has been published in Australia, the USA, and the UK, and she is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of the South Australian-based literary journal The Saltbush Review. She was a 2021 Write It Fellow with Penguin Random House, and a 2022 Editorial Mentee with Liminal and Writers SA. She is currently represented by Alexandra Christie at Curtis Brown Australia.
Lyn’s writing has received a number of awards. She is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide and she is a member of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. She has a previous doctorate in Sociology from the University of Sydney and she spent a year of research at the University of Cambridge. She has taught creative writing, literature, and social sciences at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Lyn is of mixed heritage and has Peranakan Singaporean Chinese and Anglo Celtic Australian ancestry.
Her debut novel is forthcoming in 2025.
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