Josephine Taylor is a West Australian writer and freelance editor, an adjunct lecturer at Edith Cowan University and an editorial board member of Margaret River Press. Her area of literary interest is Australian fiction. In her own research and writing, Josephine is interested in persistent pain states and the creative response to such forms of suffering. Her PhD thesis, Vulvodynia and Autoethnography (2011), has provided source material for writing published in such forums as Axon, Westerly, and Southerly. She is currently working on a novel