Bio
Leah Kaminsky is the author of several books and is a practising family physician. She was the Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellow for Fiction in 2007, is a current recipient of a Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria and has received grants from Arts Victoria and the Literature Board of Australia Council (2008). Other awards include writer-in-residence at Bar Ilan University (2008), Writing@Rosebank and Grace Marion Wilson Glenfern Studio Fellowships (2010) and Billilla/Bayside Council writer-in-residence(2010). She studied writing at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, NYU and RMIT Universities. She is editor of an anthology of prominent physician-writers, The Pen and the Stethoscope (Scribe Publishing, 2010). Her collection of poetry, Stitching Things Together, is published by Interactive Press (2010). She is a student in the MFA in Fiction Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, USA.
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