Episode 25 – Laura Jean McKay
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January 11, 2021
Delightful writer Laura Jean McKay joins us to discuss releasing a novel about a pandemic during a pandemic, performing animal voices for her audiobook, and advice on healthier ways to consume the news.
Links to topics discussed:
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
ABC Radio National’s Animal Sound Safari
Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs
The Octopus and I by Erin Hortle
Mammoth by Chris Flynn
Throat by Ellen van Neerven
Sisters Inside community based organisation
Shout out to:
Laura’s audiobook The Animals in That Country
Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020) and Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc. 2013), shortlisted for three national book awards in Australia. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Best Australian Stories, The Saturday Paper, and The North American Review. Laura is a lecturer in creative writing at Massey University, with a PhD from the University of Melbourne focusing on literary animal studies. She is the ‘animal expert’ presenter on ABC Listen’s Animal Sound Safari.