Dr Rachel Robertson is a writer and senior lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at Curtin University, Australia. Her memoir Reaching One Thousand (Black Inc., 2012, 2018) was shortlisted for the National Biography Prize and she is co-editor of Purple Prose (Fremantle Press, 2015) and Dangerous Ideas about Mothers (University of Western Australia Publishing, 2018). Her academic interests include creative writing pedagogy, life writing, the essay, critical disability studies and Australian literature.