Author Bio Short
Josephine Renee (she/her) is a 23-year-old Brisbane Australian author enrolled at Queensland University of Technology majoring in creative writing and is the Brisbane Writers Festival 2024 Youth Ambassador. She is the president of the university Literary Salons and is the 2023 recipient of the Kellie van Meurs Memorial Scholarship. She has travelled Europe for two years, spent a year and a half in North America, and has recently returned from Paris. When not gaining world-building inspiration, she dedicates her time to writing and illustrating. She has work published in Why Not, Scratch That, and Glass. Find her on Instagram @josephine_renee_official or at josephinerenee.com
Author Bio Long
Josephine Renee (she/her) is a 23-year-old queer Meanjin Brisbane Australian author enrolled at Queensland University of Technology majoring in creative writing and has volunteered at Brisbane Writers Festival 2022 – 2023 and is the 2024 Youth Ambassador. She is the president of the university Literary Salons and is the 2023 recipient of the Kellie van Meurs Memorial Scholarship. She has travelled Europe and North Africa for two years, spent a year and a half in the USA, Canada, Cuba, and Mexico, and has recently returned from Paris. When not gaining world-building inspiration, she dedicates her time to writing and illustrating, with a self-published children’s book and dedicated readership on her web-comic Horn-Nhei. She has work published in Why Not, Scratch That, and Glass. Find her on Instagram @josephine_renee_official or at josephinerenee.com
Published Books
2020 May 1st Horn-Nhei first published online webtoons (ongoing)
2019 October 15th Do You Fancy a Fairy Tale? (The Adventures of Jo and Hanna) published on Amazon
Higher Education
2022 – 2025 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Creative Writing), QUT
Awards, Grants, Prizes
2023 winner of the Kellie van Meurs Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing for demonstrating a deep commitment to writing, outstanding academic merit, and an active contribution to the writing community at QUT.
2017 third place in Create Noosa, the world’s first inter-school Virtual Reality (VR) Art Competition.
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