Sarah Balkin

Sarah Balkin is a Lecturer in English & Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches courses on theatre and performance, literature, and genre fiction. Her published work has appeared in Modern Drama, Genre, and Theatre Journal.


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Odd Angles

Rjurik Davidson’s debut novel Unwrapped Sky is set in the fictional city of Caeli-Amur, a complex mixture of ancient Rome, steampunk industry, H. P. Lovecraft’s sunken city of R’lyeh, and Davidson’s native Melbourne. Unwrapped Sky is urban fantasy, which redeploys the pastoral and heroic conventions of traditional fantasy in a city context. The human and […]