Cathy Perkins is an editor at the State Library of New South Wales. Her recent book, The Shelf Life of Zora Cross, is published by Monash University Publishing.
Books & arts
Whispering in the reader’s ear
Cathy Perkins
7 March 2025
How did Joan Lindsay come to write Picnic at Hanging Rock?
Essays & reportage
Poet, writer, daughter
Cathy Perkins
7 December 2020
A daughter puts her mother’s reputation in the hands of her biographer
Books & arts
Everything familiar yet entirely strange
Cathy Perkins
12 March 2020
Books | Biographer Sylvia Martin turns her lens onto herself
Summer season
“But no one remembers her!”
Cathy Perkins
6 November 2019
Literary history hasn’t always been kind to poet, novelist and journalist Zora Cross
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