Rijn Collins is an award-winning Melbourne writer with over one hundred short stories published in anthologies and journals, performed at literary festivals, and broadcast on Australian and American radio. Her collection of memoir, ‘Voice’ (Somekind Press, 2021) is based on her love of linguistics and languages, with a focus on Icelandic, Irish and Flemish. Her debut novel, ‘Fed to Red Birds’ (Simon and Schuster, 2023) and was inspired by her writing residency in a tiny Icelandic fishing village near the Arctic Circle. She currently lives in Melbourne with her novelist husband, in a house full of snakeskins and bird bones.
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