Marion May Campbell spent her early childhood in Dhurag and Guringai country / Berowra, NSW and then moved with her mother and sister to Beeliar / Mt Pleasant, WA, where she did most of her growing up. While from early childhood, she wanted to be a painter, her widowed mother pointed her more pragmatically in the direction of language and literary studies. She attended the Universities of NSW, WA and Provence, concentrating on French and German literature, with a focus on poetics and poetry.
Since her early attempts at poetry and fiction, she’s been enthralled by the metamorphic power of language to enlarge and transform experience. Throughout her fiction and poetry, she has explored the possibilities of a queer, feminist poetics, unbound by binary expectations. She has taught literature and writing in various Australian universities and has always enjoyed mentoring younger and emerging writers. Right now, she is engaged in a Diploma of Visual Arts in Painting and Printmaking at Melbourne Polytechnic, where she is exploring the wilder side of the suburban-domestic.
Areas of Research
theoretical, critical, and creative practice in feminist & queer experimental poetics, poetics of the fragment; politics of representation; outlaw genres; contemporary and modernist poetics in English, French & German literature
