WRITING
Caroline has written for the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross for more than two decades, working across some of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. That work has always been concerned with how individuals and communities respond to crisis, and how they begin to imagine what comes next.
She is a 2025 graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course at Allen & Unwin, a producer of award-winning feature and short films, a former writer in residence at the Queensland Writers Centre, and a regular contributor to the magazine SINTEZO.
Her current project is On a Clear Day You Can See Tomorrow, a literary novel in which an unknowable mother and her distant daughter travel together to a coastal desert town. In the thick heat they share meals and talk, or seem to, until a dust storm comes down during a visit to a fossilised bay outside the town. When it clears, the mother is gone, and the daughter is left wondering whether she had ever truly been paying attention; to her mother, or to the world around her.
Written in the restrained register of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow, with the unsettling female interiority of Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk, the novel explores grief, memory, and what it means to remain human in inhumane times. A selection of her publications appears below.
She is a 2025 graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course at Allen & Unwin, a producer of award-winning feature and short films, a former writer in residence at the Queensland Writers Centre, and a regular contributor to the magazine SINTEZO.
Her current project is On a Clear Day You Can See Tomorrow, a literary novel in which an unknowable mother and her distant daughter travel together to a coastal desert town. In the thick heat they share meals and talk, or seem to, until a dust storm comes down during a visit to a fossilised bay outside the town. When it clears, the mother is gone, and the daughter is left wondering whether she had ever truly been paying attention; to her mother, or to the world around her.
Written in the restrained register of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow, with the unsettling female interiority of Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk, the novel explores grief, memory, and what it means to remain human in inhumane times. A selection of her publications appears below.
