Moya Costello’s two collections of short creative prose and two novellas are Kites in Jakarta and Small ecstasies, The office as a boat and Harriet Chandler. She has critical and creative work in scholarly and literary journals and anthologies. She taught writing in the School of Arts and Social Sciences and the School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University where she is now an adjunct lecturer. She has been awarded federal and state writing grants and fellowships, has been a guest at the Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Bellingen, Yamba, Gold Coast, and Bryon writers festivals, and a writer-in-residence, Monash University.