Maria Takolander

MARIA TAKOLANDER was born in Melbourne in 1973. A senior lecturer in literary studies and creative writing at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria, she is the author of a work of literary criticism, Catching Butterflies, and the poetry collections Ghostly Subjects and The End of the World. Her poems have featured in annual best-of anthologies for the past seven years. THE DOUBLE is her first book of fiction.