Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham has been on the publishing scene in Australia for more than thirty years and is the author of four books, Geography (2004), Bird (2008), Melbourne (2011) and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy (2014).  She is writing her third novel, “This Devastating Fever” based on Leonard Woolf’s life and a book of linked essays called “#treeoftheday”. She is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab and the current recipient of the United States Studies Centre-Indiana University Creative Arts Fellowship for 2018.

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Review: Sophie Cunninghamon Frank Moorhouse
  • Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse
  • Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse Vintage Australia
    736pp
    $19.99 AU
    Published November, 2012
    ISBN 9781742759111

Odd Fish: Frank Moorhouse’s Cold Light

I have returned to Cold Light, the third novel in the Edith Trilogy by Frank Moorhouse, time and time again. One of my reasons for going back to it is, as is often the case with writers, self-interest.
Mar. 2018 •

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Review: Gurmeet Kauron Sophie Cunningham
  • This Devastating Fever by Sophie Cunningham Ultimo Press
    pp 320
    Published September 2022
    ISBN: 9781761150937

Sophie Cunningham’s Orbits

In Sophie Cunningham’s This Devastating Fever, tiny comets blaze across the pages. Connecting disparate histories, their orbits disrupt the order of…
Nov. 2022 • •
Juncture Review: Jessica Whiteon 2020's disasters
  • Fire, Flood, Plague: Australian Writers Respond to 2020 by Sophie Cunningham (editor) Penguin Random House
    256pp
    Published December 2020
    ISBN: 9781761040405

Before the Rainstorm

We are edging unsteadily out of the pandemic, into the rainstorm, into a world in which we might, finally, be able to hug with abandon. Fire, Flood, Plague, and others like it, have magnified voices that speak to the inequities of Australian society.

Mar. 2021 • • • •
Review: Bernadette Brennanon Sophie Cunningham
  • City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham Text Publishing
    224pp
    Published April, 2019
    ISBN 9781925773439

Living Things: City of Trees by Sophie Cunningham

With an incremental power, this collection of essays invites us to be present absolutely to ourselves, our environments, our histories and our world. City of Trees is a deeply ethical and thoughtful call to consciousness, a call to see and feel being in and of the natural world.
Jul. 2019 • •