Praise for Sydney Noir and my short story ‘The Patternmaker’ in recent reviews: Ed Wright in the Australian: ‘Only Julie Koh’s wonderfully creepy femme fatale story really reaches into the opportunities for cosmopolitan noir in a city where one in three inhabitants was born in another country.’ Chris Flynn in Australian Book Review:  ‘This long-time fan […]

My new nature essay, ‘C is for Cockroach‘, has been published in the Sydney Review of Books. The essay is part of a series called the New Nature. Writers were asked to subvert the literary conventions of writing nature. This piece is a partial reboot of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, and continues the story of Kanganoulipo.

I’ll be in Brisbane next week for the launch of Reading the Landscape. Hope to see some familiar faces there! Tickets are available via Eventbrite. Details of the event: 2018 is a landmark year for the University of Queensland Press (UQP) as we celebrate our 70th year as a fiercely independent writer’s press. To recognise […]

I’m stoked to be a finalist for the 2018 Norma K Hemming Award (Long Work), recognising excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender, sexuality, class or disability in a published speculative fiction work. Thanks to the judges and the Australian Science Fiction Foundation (ASFF). The full list is: The Barrier, Shankari Chandran, Pan […]

The following short story was first published in July 2017 in Vault magazine, Issue 19. It was part of a photo essay curated by Neha Kale, in which three authors—Miles Allinson, Max Olijnk and myself—responded to Larry Sultan’s incredible photographic memoir Pictures from Home. The specific photo on which this story centres is ‘Practicing Golf Swing’ (1986). * Cross-Section My […]