Mireille Juchau | |
Birth Place: | Sydney, New South Wales |
Occupation: | Writer |
Language: | English |
Nationality: | Australian |
Notableworks: | The World Without Us |
Years Active: | 1995- |
Mireille Juchau (born 1969) is an Australian author.
Juchau was born in 1969 and was raised in Sydney, New South Wales. She is of Jewish heritage.[1]
She received First Class Honours and the University Medal from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) 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.[2]
Juchau was the fiction editor of HEAT magazine for some time.[3]
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 UTS, University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University.
She attended the New York State Summer Writer's School, USA in 2000 and has had several writing residencies at Varuna Writers Centre and Bundanon Arts Centre, Australia.