Vanessa Berry
Vanessa Berry is a writer who works with memory, history, archives, and objects.
BottomVanessa Berry is a writer who works with memory, history, archives, and objects.
BottomVanessa Berry is a writer who works with memory, history, archives, and objects. She is the author of four books, most recently Gentle and Fierce (2021), a memoir about human and animal relationships, and the award-winning Mirror Sydney (2017), about urban environments and change, based on the popular Mirror Sydney blog. She is the author of the autobiographical zine series I am a Camera and her zine and illustration works have been exhibited at major Australian galleries. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sydney.
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