Josephine Wilson is an Australian writer and academic based in Perth, Western Australia.^[1]

Wilson was born in Lincolnshire, England, and came to live in Australia with her family at the age of six. She has a Masters of Philosophy from the University of Queensland and a PhD from University of Western Australia (UWA).^[2]

She writes essays, poetry and fiction.^[2]

In September 2017, Wilson won the Miles Franklin Award for her second novel, Extinctions (UWA Publishing, 2016).^[2] This book had won the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2016.^[3] It also won the 2017 Colin Roderick Award, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.^[4]

Wilson lives in Perth and teaches creative writing and literary theory at Murdoch University. She has been a sessional teacher at UWA and Curtin University, lecturing in performance studies, creative writing, and the history of art and design.^[5]

Wilson was a writer-in-residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs (2019), and an Asialink resident in Shanghai (2018).^[6]

• The Geography of Haunted Places (1994)^[7] in Allen, Richard and Pearlman, Karen Performing the Unnameable, Sydney: Currency Press.
• Customs (1998)^[8]

• —— (2005). Cusp. UWA Publishing.
• —— (2016). Extinctions. UWA Publishing.

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