SSOA AUTHORS
Authors published by Sydney School of Arts & Humanities represent a wide range of interests, from human relationships, nature and the environment, to innovative ideas in the study of spirituality, society and politics. Their publications range from memoir, novels and short story to poetry and the essay form. You can find out more about each author on their profile pages linked below.
Damian Cooper
Damian Cooper lives in the Blue Mountains where he works with disadvantaged youth, and has written a memoir of his own childhood. . . .
Lawrence Goodstone
Lawrence Goodstone says he is now in a position to create stories from a life well lived. His collection of short stories featuring sna . . .
Ferdinando Manzo
Ferdinando Manzo is a journalist, currently working with La Fiamma in Sydney, who writes fiction and poetry in both Italian and English . . .
Sara Hess Roney
Sara Hess Roney holds an MFA in Speech and Drama from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is a former student of Paul Baker. . . .
Peter Stankovic
Peter A Stankovic retired from a career in finance to take up full-time writing. He has self-published several crime stories and his no . . .
Christine Williams
Dr Christine Williams is the author of four biographical works and a short story collection and has had work published in Australia, th . . .
Robyn Edwards
Bondi Beach local, Robyn Edwards, lives to face the breaking waves each day. In her debut novel, ‘Blue Wave Bondi’, she plunges into de . . .
Wil Roach
Wil Roach has completed the first book of a 3-part memoir, Black Gay & Underage: A Memoir of London. He has also had several short stor . . .
Leo Ryan
Leo Ryan (deceased 2019) was a counsellor for the major part of his working life. Early in his career he became aware of the number of . . .
Syam Sudhakar
Syam Sudhakar is an award-winning bilingual poet who writes in English and Malayalam. Holding a PhD in English Literature from the Univ . . .
Quendryth Young
Coordinator of Cloudcatchers, a group of haiku poets on the Far North Coast of NSW, Quendryth Young has had more than 800 haiku publish . . .
Nicky Gluch
A young Jewish Australian woman explores that which divides us – religion, language, country – and finds that which unites us in music. . . .
Sao Khemawadee Mangrai
Sao Khemawadee was born in Hsipaw, in the northern Shan states of Burma, now known as Myanmar. Her husband was imprisoned by the milita . . .
Rossco Robertson
Now working in IT and graphic design for a telecommunications provider, Rossco dedicates his free time to surfing, snowboarding, painti . . .
Jenny Sheldon
Former English teacher, Jenny Sheldon was left unable to speak after suffering a stroke. Her first book, I Will: A Memoir of Stroke, Re . . .
Geetha Waters
Geetha Walters has worked at the Krishnamurti Centre at Summer Hill, Sydney, and writes about her childhood in India in the 1960s and 7 . . .