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Laura Jean McKay lived in Cambodia for 12 months over a four-year period, studying its colours, sounds and stories.

9 Jan 2014

Shivaun Plozza

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Shivaun Plozza

About the Author

Shivaun Plozza is the author of ‘Frankie’ (Penguin, 2016), her first novel. Her short fiction, flash fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in anthologies and journals including ‘Where the Shoreline Used to Be’, ‘Above Water’, ‘Text’, ‘Vivid ‘and ‘The Victorian Writer’. When she’s not writing, she works as an editor and a manuscript assessor.

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