Merrilee Moss
Picture by Jenny Denton courtesy of the Gunnawarra Times article about her play Running With Emus
https://www.gannawarratimes.com.au/news/running-with-emus
Merrilee Moss is a playwright and novelist who also lectures part-time in writing. Her lesbian ghost thriller, Fedora Walks, was first published as a serialised novel in Melbourne's Lesbiana. Merrilee is the author of a number of books for young adults, including Thriller & Me and the eight-book adventure series Hot Pursuit, written in collaboration with Jenny Pausacker.
Her plays, which have toured to theatres and community venues all over Australia, include If Looks Could Kill, Empty Suitcases and Over the Hill. Her play The Slippery Slope had its "world premiere" in 2002 in Canberra and was performed in Melbourne at LaMama theatre in March 2004. The Slippery Slope is a comic-tragedy, featuring a reunion of friends at a sixtieth birthday party (the "Big Chill" twenty years on).
In 1997, Moss also edited a non-fiction book of life stories, Taking A Punt: First Stop Bonegilla, working with a group of people in their 70s who began their lives in Australia at the Bonegilla Migrant camp in Wodonga.
Translations
Fedora Walks by Merrilee Moss: German: Fedora Geht: Frauenoffensive
Merrilee Moss
In the nineteenth century Charles Dickens wrote his novels as serials; in the late twentieth century Merrilee Moss conjures up a new kind of serial fiction: of ghosts, of crime, of satire and of lesbian desire.
When the ghostly Fedora interrupts Julie Barnard's morning coffee in Brunswick Street, Julie's life is set to change. An out-of-work PI, Julie is seduced by Fedora's French accent and flamboyant hats, but soon discovers that wearing beautiful hats is a dangerous activity.
2001 | ISBN 9781876756048 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 88 pages