Alys Moody
alys.moody@gmail.com
I grew up in the hills outside Coffs Harbour, which is an ugly little town on Australia's east coast, about half way between Sydney and Brisbane. Coffs is known primarily as home to the Big Banana, one the country's most puzzlingly horrible tourist attractions, whose combination of banana-growing and tourism - Coffs' two primary industries - never fails to disappoint.
Because I don't like farming or serving people, I moved to Sydney when I finished high school. I majored in English and French at the University of Sydney, took an Honours year in English, and wrote my Honours thesis on Djuna Barnes and Jeanette Winterson. Apparently, no one has ever heard of either, so I spent a lot of 2006 fielding blank stares.
It would seem that I've just enrolled to start a PhD in English, on Samuel Beckett and Paul Auster (or so my thesis proposal alledges). So - fun times and Godot-related small talk ahead! Unless, of course, I go to France where I will be able to engage in small talk on BOTH writers, as both have played the 'I'm a minor Anglophone celebrity who speaks French' card and consequently become HUGE. Oh the French ...
Also, sometimes I am incompetent. One example of this is the second entry under my name, in which I failed to enter my surname or use caps – and then forgot my password. I’m sorry everyone!
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