Tor Roxburgh

Tor Roxburgh is a writer and artist. Her fiction and non-fiction books have been published by William Heinemann Australia, Pan Macmillan, Pan UK, Australian Consolidated Press, Greenhouse Publications and The Federation Press. Writing as Linda Hollan, Gina Walsh and KD Miller, she is the author of 12 teenage romances. Her non-fiction includes Taking Control, one of the first successful Australian titles about family violence, and The Book of Weeks, a tale of the complex story of the weeks of pregnancy. Working with fellow writer Dev Mukagee, she was senior writer and researcher on the Australian National Inquiry into Youth Homelessness.

Tor’s latest book , The Light Heart of Stone, is an epic fantasy novel, set in the world of the Stone Body, a continent on which plants and animals need human companions in order to thrive.

“I began my writing career, writing what I was passionate about: social issues such as opposing violence and sexual assault against women and children. A few years later I started writing teen romance with a feminist sensibility. I am currently writing fantasy, which, along with science fiction, has always been my favourite genre.

The twin to my writing life is my life as an artist. I began making public art with Velislav Georgiev in 2000. Together, we have created many different large-scale sculptures for public parks and landscapes in Australia. I moved from sculpture to painting about four years ago and found that my background as a writer spilled over to create a particular style, which is contemporary, narrative and speculative.

In both my writing and in my artwork I am driven by the desire to illuminate the threads that constitute complexity.”