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Gail Jones lives in Sydney. She has written short stories and novels and has been short listed for major national and international awards such as the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Eleanor Stankiewicz graduated from NIDA’s Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) and in 2014, she began teaching voice in the NIDA full-time Acting course, as well as teaching voice and acting for NIDA Corporate and NIDA Open. A regular performer with Improv Theatre Sydney, she has worked across screen and stage, including with some of Australia’s leading theatre companies and touring with Bell Shakespeare as both a part of The Players and the Poetry In Action’s ensemble. Eleanor has was written and starred in her own award-winning one-woman-show, Nanna-stasia.
'It is a poetic and beautifully crafted evocation of shadowy pasts whose traumatic effects (in the world and in individual lives) stretch deep into the present and the future.' -- Australian Book Review 'Praised for her precise, incisive observations, Jones’s writing frequently offers nuanced reflections on the cultural state of Australia as well as quiet revelations about the lives of her characters. Our Shadows is no exception … written like the wave that haunts its imaginative landscape, ebbing and flowing from past generations to the present and back again.' -- Guardian 'Gail Jones deftly and sensitively brings together these disparate stories into a meditation on grief, loss, estrangement, identity and, strangely enough, mining and underground rescue. The concepts and feelings tackled here are beautifully universal, but told in a context that is uniquely Australian.' -- Readings 'Touching on love, illness and grief, it is hauntingly beautiful.' -- Good Weekend
