Roanna Gonsalves

Dr Roanna Gonsalves is the award-winning author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP). She is a recipient of a UNSW Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award and the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award among many other honours. Roanna’s series of radio documentaries, On the tip of a billion tongues, and her radio essay Doosra: The life and times of an Indian student in Australia were commissioned and broadcast by ABC Radio National. She works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UNSW, Sydney.