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Rose Hunter is the author of several books of poetry including Body Shell Girl (Spinifex Press, 2022) and glass (Five Islands Press, 2017). She has been widely published in literary journals in Australia, the USA, and Canada, and she has been published at the ABC and a guest on the ABC’s Radio National. Rose was born in Australia and lived in Canada for ten years, then Mexico for ten more. She currently lives in Brisbane/Meanjin.
Rose Hunter’s most recent book, Body Shell Girl (Spinifex Press, May/June 2022), is a memoir in verse that tells the story of her first two years in the sex industry. She is also the author of five other books of poetry, including glass (Five Islands Press, 2017). She has been published widely in journals in Australia, the USA, and Canada, and has been awarded an Australia Council for the Arts grant. Rose was born in Australia and lived in Canada for ten years, then Mexico for ten more. She is currently on the Gold Coast, where she is enrolled in a PhD in Creative Writing at Griffith University
Body Shell Girl is a special book – layered, creative, complicated. On one level we can approach it as a confessional, a delivery of one woman’s story where the subject matter is clear – we know Rose has created a verse novel inspired in her own words by ‘the radioactive journals’ she kept in the first two years of a decade long stint in the sex industry – in this way the book joins a conversation, a context with other books that explore this industry from different points of view.
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