BA (Curtin University) MA (Wollongong University) An active member of the Creative Practice Circle, Tracy Sorensen is a media professional with a background in journalism and arts promotion, a researcher, and the author of two acclaimed Australian novels (The Lucky Galah, Picador, 2018, and The Vitals, Picador, 2023). She was the 2019-2020 writer-in-residence at the Charles Perkins Centre based on the Sydney University campus. As part of Charles Sturt University’s Creative Practice Circle, Tracy has learned from and supported her peers in a range of practice-based experiments and symposia, including a leadership role in the Listening in the Anthropocene Symposium and Exhibition 2020, the Crevice Communities Exhibition 2021 and the Crevice Communities Symposium 2022. Since 2007, Tracy Sorensen has taught a wide range of journalism and communication subjects in the School of Information Studies and Communication (formerly the School of Communication and Creative Industries) including journalism (print, radio, online and television), documentary production and event management. Tracy Sorensen’s research interests cover creative writing, creative practice-based research, and the role of handicrafts as a vehicle for creative expression, trauma relief and “quiet activism” in the face of environmental disaster. She has a particular interest in exploring and heightening awareness of the more-than-human world. Her creative practice-based PhD thesis on crochet and climate change has been passed by external examiners and is now awaiting confirmation.
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Ms Tracy Sorensen