Rachel Robertson

Rachel Robertson is a West Australian writer and lecturer in professional writing at Curtin University. She was the joint winner (with Mark Tredinnick) of the 2008 Australian Book Review Calibre Prize for Outstanding Essay. Rachel’s essays and short fiction have been published in anthologies and journals such as Griffith Review, Island, Life Writing, Westerly, and Best Australian Essays 2008. She is the author of Reaching One Thousand: A Story of Love, Motherhood and Autism (2012) and co-editor of Purple Prose (2015).

Website URL: http://www.rachelrobertson.net.au/blog

Rachel Robertson reviews 'The Best Australian Stories 2017' edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke

Published in January–February 2018, no. 398

Rachel Robertson reviews 'A Tear in the Soul' by Amanda Webster

Published in December 2016, no. 387

Rachel Robertson reviews 'Dying: A memoir' by Cory Taylor

Published in June–July 2016, no. 382

2008 Calibre Prize (Winner): 'Reaching One Thousand' by Rachel Robertson

Published in February 2008 no. 298

'Six' by John Clanchy

Published in November 2014, no. 366

Riding a Crocodile

Published in October 2014 no. 365

The trickster

Published in April 2014 no. 360

Rachel Robertson reviews 'The Twelfth Raven' by Doris Brett

Published in April 2014 no. 360

Rachel Robertson reviews 'The Great Unknown' edited by Angela Meyer

Published in March 2014 no. 359

Rachel Robertson reviews 'Boomer & Me' by Jo Case

Published in May 2013 no. 351

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