I’m walking to Mrs. Macquarie’s Chair in Sydney’s Domain at high tide, scanning the small bay in Woolloomooloo, as I always do, for fish or stingrays. There’s nothing to see in the flat green water nudging the sandstone cliffs ...
Delia Falconer
Delia Falconer is the author of two novels, The Service of Clouds (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998) and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (Soft Skull, 2006). Her 2010 nonfiction work, Sydney, a personal history of her hometown, won the CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature and was shortlisted for other major national prizes, including the New South Wales Premier’s History and National Biography awards. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Technology, Sydney. In 2018 her essay for the Sydney Review of Books, “The Opposite of Glamour,” won the Walkey-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism. 