Relationships are complicated – but would we want them any other way?

Beloved storytellers Richard Glover and Debra Oswald and acclaimed psychologist and author Ahona Guha talk love, labels and psychobabble with Griffith Review Editor Carody Culver. They’ll be exploring their contributions to the journal’s latest edition, Attachment Styles, which goes far beyond the family tree to explore the pleasures, pitfalls and peculiarities of our myriad emotional ties.

Richard Glover‘s books include the bestsellers The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and Love, Clancy. His latest is Best Wishes – a book about making the world a better, less annoying place, one wish at a time. He writes weekly for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and presents the comedy show Thank God It’s Friday on ABC Local Radio.

Debra Oswald is a two-time winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the creator of the TV series Offspring. Her stage plays include Gary’s House, Mr Bailey’s Minder, Stories in the Dark and Dags. She has written TV scripts, nine books for children and three adult novels, most recently The Family Doctor. She performed her one-woman show, Is There Something Wrong With That Lady?, at Griffin Theatre in 2021 and Ensemble Theatre in 2023.

Dr Ahona Guha is a clinical and forensic psychologist and author from Melbourne. Her debut book, Reclaim: understanding complex trauma and those who abuse, was released in 2023 and her most recent book, Like Skills for a Broken World, was released in January 2024. She writes widely for the media and her work has appeared in The Age, The Guardian, ABC, SBS, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review and Breathe Magazine. She was awarded a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship in 2022.

Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review. She was a contributing editor for Peppermint magazine and has written for publications including Sydney Review of Books, The Lifted Brow, The Toast and Books+Publishing. Her chapbook, ‘The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets’, was published by Cordite in 2022 and she’s been a featured Australian poet on the Best American Poetry blog.