Mythical Retellings

Authors

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  Carody Culver

  Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review. She's also a writer and a literary interviewer. Her work has appeared in Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, Books+Publishing and more, and she's been a contributing editor for Peppermint magazine.
  
  Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets, was published by Cordite in 2022.
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  Yann Martel

  Yann Martel is the author of a short story collection, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and of five novels, Self, Beatrice & Virgil, Life of Pi (for which he was awarded the 2002 Man Booker Prize), The High Mountains of Portugal and Son of Nobody.
  
  Martel also ran a guerilla book club with Stephen Harper, sending the former prime minister of Canada a book every two weeks for four years. The letters that accompanied the books were published as 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.
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  Zoe Terakes

  Zoe is one of Australia’s most exciting new writers whose first book, Eros, a collection of Greek Myths retold through a Queer lens, is published by Hachette Australia who will also publish Zoe’s forthcoming novel. Zoe’s first play Hermaphroditus, based on the story in their book Eros, will premiere in development at the inaugural Trans Theatre Festival in 2026, and is also being adapted as a feature film.
  
  As an actor, Zoe was most recently seen in the Marvel Studios / Disney+ series Ironheart. Other TV credits include the Australian remake of The Office, Nine Perfect Strangers, alongside Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy, and SBS On Demand’s Creamerie.
  
   Zoe identifies as nonbinary and trans masculine. They are a vocal advocate and activist for trans rights within the industry and on a global scale.
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  Nikita Gill

  Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, illustrator and actor who has the attention of 750,000 Instagram followers worldwide for her work. Her work offers a shift of perspective which centres women in both Greek and Hindu myth as well as folklore. She has given a TEDx Talk, spoken at every major literary festival in the UK and been shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award in poetry three times, the Children's Poetry Award two times and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Gill has written seven poetry collections and two verse novels.