I’m an Australian author writing a mix of fiction, poetry, memoir and essay. My most recent book is The Age of Fibs: stories, memoir, microlit (SW, 2022). Previous books include Vagabondage, a verse memoir about the year I lived in a campervan; How to Conceive of a Girl (fiction, Random House); and The Party of Life, a bilingual (English-Chinese) poetry collection from ASM/Flying Islands. I’ve received various awards, such as the Age Short Story Award, runner up for the Steele Rudd Award (for How to Conceive of a Girl), and the Inaugural Dinny O’Hearn Fellowship. I’ve also received several fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australia Council and support from CreateNSW. In 2006 I was awarded a PhD for my thesis, 'The Body as Fiction / Fiction as a Way of Thinking'. I[ve also had essays, opinion pieces and articles published widely in Australian newspapers such as The Age and Canberra Times, in academic journals, and broadcast on ABC Radio National. A double CD of my radio pieces, Body of Words, was published by dogmedia. My campervan, Vandelicious, has moved on to new owners and new adventures and I now lives in a tiny house on the NSW central coast, surrounded by birds and waterdragons, and at www.bethspencer.com.