Karen Throssell

Karen Han Throssell started as a non-fiction writer. Her book on Australian foreign policy, The Pursuit of Happiness, was published in 1988 and an early manuscript of a book on home/work balance, then entitled Taking Back Time, achieved a "highly commended" in the Interactive Publishers competition in 2005.

In 2017, her manuscript of 'i-spy: the man who wasn’t there' was shortlisted for the UWAP Dorothy Hewett prize for an unpublished manuscript of a work of creative non-fiction. This book has been re-named The Crime of not Knowing your Crime: Ric Throssell against ASIO and was published by Interventions Press in July 2021.

She has published seven collections of poetry and has had poems appear in various journals and anthologies, including Westerly, Overland, Quadrant, Meanjin, the Hunter Writer’s Centre’s Grieve Anthology, Margaret River Press’ Fire anthology, and Gininderra’s anthologies: Mountain Secrets, I Protest! Poems of Dissent, and Telling Australia’s Truth. 

Karen is currently working on a collection of poetry and prose about the cruise Industry as a metaphor for capitalism!