Dominic Amerena is an Australian writer whose work has been widely published and anthologised in The Sydney Review of Books, The Saturday Paper, Best Australian Stories, Overland, ABR, The Age, The Australian, The Guardian and The Lifted Brow. Dom has won numerous prizes, scholarships, fellowships, and grants, including the Hawthornden Fellowship, the inaugural Speculate Prize, an Australia Council New Work Grant and the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. In 2023, Dom completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of RMIT. He lives between Melbourne and Athens, Greece.
‘A delightful literary puzzle, posed to the reader in vibrant and clear-cut prose. “Authenticity”, the demonic past and the treacherous body come under wry examination. It's rare for a writer to be this good both at crafting a sentence and at making you want to read the next one.’ -- <B>Naoise Dolan, author of <I>Exciting Times </I>and <I>The Happy Couple</I></B> ‘Composed with stylistic brilliance and structural ingenuity, I Want Everything is that rare thing, a great contemporary novel. While it is first and foremost a hilarious, complex, and profound reflection on the relationship between life and writing, it is also fun to read, entertaining and populated by rich, real characters. Dominic Amerena is a fantastic writer. (Seriously.)’ -- <B>Lauren Oyler, author of <I>Fake Accounts </I>and <I>No Judgement</I></B>