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- ISBN: 978-1-922212-86-3
- Extent: 196pp
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Katerina Gibson
Katerina Gibson is a writer living in Naarm (Melbourne). Her debut collection, Women I Know (Scribner, 2022), won the 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction....
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