Shady Cosgrove

• Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong

Shady Cosgrove is a Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong, where she teaches prose fiction and editing. Her books include What the Ground Can't Hold (Picador) and She Played Elvis (Allen and Unwin). Her short works have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Overland, Southerly, takahe, Eunoia Review, Antipodes and various Spineless Wonders collections.

• 2026–present Professor, University of Wollongong
• 2015–2025 Associate professor, University of Wollongong
• 2009–2015 Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong
• 2012–2014 Sub Dean, University of Wollongong
• 2003–2009 Lecturer, University of Wollongong

• 2003 The Australian National University, Doctor of Philosophy
• 1996 Vassar College, Bachelor of Arts

• 2013 What the Ground Can't Hold, Picador, Pan Macmillan
• 2009 She Played Elvis, Allen and Unwin

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