Yvonne Fein

Biography

Yvonne Fein holds a BA (Hons) in Literature from the University of Melbourne, an MA in History from Monash University and a Diploma of Creative Writing from Prahran College. She has had four novels published by traditional publishers and has written for screen and theatre, as well as editing 2 literary journals with Arnold Zable (𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒 and 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙). She also edited Abraham Biderman’s Banjo Paterson Award-winning Holocaust memoir, The World of My Past. Her short story, Weintraub’s Disorder, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the editors of Flying South while her novel April Fool (Hodder) was nominated in the Ned Kelly Awards for best first crime novel. Its filmscript won the New York, Gotham Screenplay Competition in the Action-Adventure category.

She lives in suburban Melbourne, Australia where you can still find venomous spiders and the occasional snake in your back yard. Her commitment to social action had her conducting creative writing workshops for people with mental illness and, under the aegis of the Victorian College of the Arts, she advocated for those with all manner of disability by—improbably, perhaps—writing and performing stand-up comedy to raise public awareness.

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