Carmel Bendon

Carmel Bendon is a writer and presenter on 'all things medieval' to academic and general audiences. She has a PhD in Medieval Literature and an Honours degree in Early English, and has lectured in English Literature, Medieval Studies, and Spirituality at a number of Australian universities. Her specialist research field is Medieval Mystics and this was the basis of her successful non-fiction book Mysticism and Space. Her other academic publications include chapters and articles on St Augustine, Julian of Norwich, and Hildegard of Bingen, and on anchorites and the practice of immurement. More generally, she has published on Geoffrey Chaucer, Jorge Luis Borges, and Oscar Wilde, and has been a contributor to the International Dictionary of Literary Biography. She is now concentrating on writing fiction. Grasping at Water is her first novel. She lives in Sydney with her husband, a faithful dog, and a wild garden.