Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters, like Krissy Kneen and Michelle Law are just the opposite. They’ve been sent to this room to think about what they have done, come and hear what they have to say for themselves.
Zenobia Frost is a Brisbane-based poet whose work has appeared in Overland, Cordite, The Lifted Brow, ARC and Voiceworks. In 2015, an ArtStart grant allowed her to study the contours of confessional writing with Warsan Shire and — in the Black Forest’s University of Freiburg — with Roxane Gay and Adrianne Kalfopoulou.
Krissy Kneen is the award winning author of the memoir Affection, the novels Steeplechase,Triptych,The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, and the Thomas Shapcott Award winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. Her latest novel is An Uncertain Grace. She has written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC television.
