Caroline Austin is a fiction writer and artist based in Brisbane/Meanjin.
For more than two decades she has written for the United Nations and the International Red Cross Red Crescent, working across some of the world's largest humanitarian crises. This experience informs her fiction, which examines how individuals and communities respond to disruption and crisis.
Alongside her humanitarian work, Caroline has built a practice as a community engagement specialist, exploring how creative practice and design can be used in community settings to encourage the cognitive shifts that support systems change. She has collaborated with Queen's University (Kingston), Queensland University of Technology and the University of New England on developing new approaches to the challenges posed by complex, disruptive events. In 2011 she received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from Queensland University of Technology.
Her artistic practice spans installation and public sculpture, and she has worked with organisations including the School of Visual Arts' Visual and Critical Studies program in New York, Doh Eain in Myanmar and BARI Festival in Brisbane. She is the founder of SINTEZO Magazine, has written and produced award-winning films and short films, and has taught creativity and design.
Caroline is a graduate of the Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin and a former Writer in Residence at the Queensland Writers Centre. She is currently completing a literary thriller set in the Australian desert, which is available for option.
For more than two decades she has written for the United Nations and the International Red Cross Red Crescent, working across some of the world's largest humanitarian crises. This experience informs her fiction, which examines how individuals and communities respond to disruption and crisis.
Alongside her humanitarian work, Caroline has built a practice as a community engagement specialist, exploring how creative practice and design can be used in community settings to encourage the cognitive shifts that support systems change. She has collaborated with Queen's University (Kingston), Queensland University of Technology and the University of New England on developing new approaches to the challenges posed by complex, disruptive events. In 2011 she received the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from Queensland University of Technology.
Her artistic practice spans installation and public sculpture, and she has worked with organisations including the School of Visual Arts' Visual and Critical Studies program in New York, Doh Eain in Myanmar and BARI Festival in Brisbane. She is the founder of SINTEZO Magazine, has written and produced award-winning films and short films, and has taught creativity and design.
Caroline is a graduate of the Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin and a former Writer in Residence at the Queensland Writers Centre. She is currently completing a literary thriller set in the Australian desert, which is available for option.