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"""A really useful essay collection in which critic practitioners explore speculative biography in inventive and subtle ways, adding valuable terms to theory and critical debate. Drawing on challenges across a wide range of projects, contributors make their encounters with narrative difficulties into productive conversations that will inspire and interest life writing scholars."" - Clare Brant, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London ""At a time when life narratives declare themselves biofiction, autofiction, creative non-fiction, or simply ""based on a true story,"" Speculative Biography: Experiments, Opportunities, and Provocations applies critical and theoretical rigor to life representation as a product and a practice. Its contributors describe and assess challenges encountered and answered in the process of assembling and imagining a ""life world,"" as archive, supposition, and method come together in narratives that acknowledge the nuances of represented truth"" - Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa"

A really useful essay collection in which critic practitioners explore speculative biography in inventive and subtle ways, adding valuable terms to theory and critical debate. Drawing on challenges across a wide range of projects, contributors make their encounters with narrative difficulties into productive conversations that will inspire and interest life writing scholars. - Clare Brant, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King's College London At a time when life narratives declare themselves biofiction, autofiction, creative non-fiction, or simply based on a true story, Speculative Biography: Experiments, Opportunities, and Provocations applies critical and theoretical rigor to life representation as a product and a practice. Its contributors describe and assess challenges encountered and answered in the process of assembling and imagining a life world, as archive, supposition, and method come together in narratives that acknowledge the nuances of represented truth - Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

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Donna Lee Brien is Emeritus Professor of Creative Industries at Central Queensland University, Australia. Specialising in research on genres of non-fiction writing, Donna has published 23 books and monographs. Author of The Shadow Side of Nursing: Paradox, Image and Identity (with Margaret McAllister, 2020), co-edited collections include Writing the Australian Beach: Local Site, Global Idea (2020), Publishing and Culture (2019), Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice (2018), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (2018) and Recovering History through Fact and Fiction: Forgotten Lives (2017). Past President of national peak body the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Donna co-edits The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. Kiera Lindsey is a Senior Research Fellow conducting an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award on speculative biography and historical craft at the University of Technology Sydney. She has published book chapters and journal articles on nineteenth-century history, historical craft and biography. Her first speculative biography, The Convict’s Daughter was published in 2018 and described as ‘fearlessly carving a new path between history and fiction’. Her second is concerned with colonial artist and republican, Adelaide Ironside. Kiera has been an on-camera historian and a regular guest on ABC Radio National. She is currently an executive councillor with the History Council of New South Wales.

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