Mireille Juchau


Mireille Juchau is an Australian author.
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Early life and education

Juchau was born in 1969 and was raised in Sydney, New South Wales.
She received First Class Honours and the University Medal from the University of Technology, Sydney in 1994 for her BA thesis, Tracings: Writing memory and the Holocaust. She completed a doctorate in writing and philosophy from the University of Western Sydney in 2000, with her thesis Machines for feeling: Narrating autistic experience.

Career

Juchau was the fiction editor of HEAT magazine from 2009-2011.
She has been a peer on the Literature Board for the Australia Council for the Arts, a judge for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and has lectured at University of Technology, Sydney, University of New South Wales, Macquarie University and Western Sydney University. She is an Honorary Affiliate at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney where she was Writer in Residence in 2017-2018.

Recognition and awards

She attended the New York State Summer Writer's School, USA in 2000 and has had writing residencies at the BR Whiting Studio Rome, Varuna Writers Centre, Bundanon Arts Centre, Australia.

Selected works

Novels

Machines for Feeling Burning In

Drama

  • ''White Gifts''