Dr Amelia Walker

Amelia Walker is the author of four poetry collections and three poetry teaching resource books in Macmillan's All You Need to Teach series. She completed her PhD in 2016 through the University of South Australia, for a thesis about creative writing's value in contemporary higher education and research. In 2015 she won the Australasian Association of Writing Programs Postgraduate Conference Paper Prize in two categories: creative paper and critical paper. Amelia currently teaches courses in creative writing and children's / young adult literature. She is also secretary for the Australsian Association of Writing Programs, co-editor of the book reviews section for peer-reviewed creative writing research journal TEXT, and incoming managing editor for Writing From Below, a peer-reviewed journal of queer writing and research.   

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia

• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of South Australia

• Bachelor of Nursing University of South Australia

Work history

I have worked at the University of South Australia since 2013, teaching and lecturing in local, offshore and external courses including:

• Digital Storytelling (offshore campus, Singapore)
• Professional and Creative Communication 1
• Writing and Text Workshop
• English and Creative Writing
• Books and Readers
• Introduction to Australian Children's Literature
• Picture Books
• Power of Story