Penni Russon

Penni Russon is the author of several award-winning and critically acclaimed novels for young people. She’s taught creative writing at universities in Melbourne and Sydney since 2007. In July 2026 she will commence a three year ARC DECRA research fellowship on slow narrative and the ecology of attention in children’s literature written by adults and children’s own creative practice. She is cultivating her own ‘slow’ methods for writing, an approach that values relational and durational composition, playing with the boundaries of poetry and prose, myth and history, self-making and place-making, and human and more-than-human in form and content.