PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Eloise Grills is an award-winning writer, comics artist, poet and critic. Her work has been published widely in literary journals and anthologies, including Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, The Rumpus, Going Down Swinging, Kill Your Darlings, Sydney Review of Books, The Lifted Brow, and Borderless. She has been the recipient of many grants, including competitive funding from the Australia Council, the Copyright Agency and Creative Victoria. Essays from this collection have been recognised in awards including the Melbourne Writer's Prize, Lifted Brow X non/fiction Lab Prize for Experimental Nonfiction, The Peter Blazey Award, and the Cosmonauts Avenue Nonfiction Prize. She holds a master's degree in creative writing, editing and publishing from the University of Melbourne. Eloise lives on Dja Dja Wurrung country with her fiance Jackie and their two dogs, Ripley and Vince, as well as her mother-in-law Madeleine and her dog, Minnie. big beautiful female theory is her first collection of essays.
