Peta Murray
Peta Murray (she/her) is a writer-performer known for her plays Wallflowering and Salt and her meaningfully irreverent and queerelous approaches to performing the essay. A founding member of The Symphony of Awkward, she works with Dr Kim Munro and Dr Stayci Taylor on advances in diarological arts and sciences. Current projects include a book of essays, How to Dress for Old Age (with Professor David Carlin), a queer cantata, HERD with WreckedAllprods and a co-edited collection on Creative Writing Methods for Bloomsbury Academic. Peta is a recipient of numerous awards, including a Victoria Premiers Literary Award and a Centenary Medal for Services to Literature. She is a Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
All essays by Peta Murray
Kin-as-Ethics: experiments in un/authorised queer essay practice
As I begin to write kin and ethics a dear writing friend corresponds with me in messages about writing and love and rallying and the idea of being ‘inside the between’ when we come close how there is a ‘turning there’ how it is ‘the both of us’ and how the work of language of prepositions and prepositional thinking opens derring-do to a means of queering and transing language that becomes possible.