Mireille Juchau | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 1995- |
| Notable works | The World Without Us |
Mireille Juchau (born 1969) is an Australian author.
Juchau was born in 1969 and was raised in Sydney, New South Wales. She is of Jewish heritage.[1]
She received First Class Honours and the University Medal from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 1994 for her BA thesis, Tracings: Writing memory and the Holocaust.[2][3] She completed a doctorate in writing and philosophy from the University of Western Sydney in 2000, with her thesis Machines for feeling: Narrating autistic experience.[2][4]
Juchau was the fiction editor of HEAT magazine for some time.[5]
She has been a peer on the Literature Board for the Australia Council for the Arts, a judge for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and has lectured at UTS, University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University.[citation needed]
She attended the New York State Summer Writer's School, USA in 2000 and has had several writing residencies at Varuna Writers Centre and Bundanon Arts Centre, Australia.[citation needed]
