Heather Taylor-Johnson lives and writes on Kaurna land near Port Adelaide. Her third novel, Little Bit, is a work of autofiction. Before that, Jean Harley was Here was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Fiction. Her essays on art and illness have won the Island Nonfiction Prize and been shortlisted for ABR’s Calibre Prize. Her seventh book of poems is I Lost Someone Then Found Them In My Body. She is the editor of Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of Chronic Illness and Pain, read widely in disability circles around the world. She is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the J M Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice and runs a modest writers’ residency in Clayton Bay: Island View Writers’ House. She writes arts criticism for InReview and Glam Adelaide.
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