| Jessica Knight is a writer based in Naarm. last year she was a recipient of an arts accelerate create grant from arts access Victoria to work on her first book. She was highly commended for her application to the The Wheeler Centres’s 2021 The Next Chapter . Her piece about Growing up with inoperable cataracts was published in Growing Up Disabled In Australia published by Black Ink. |
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