Tanya Dalziell is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Professor and Chair of English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia, situated on Whadjuk Noongar land. She is co-editor of the journal Australian Literary Studies and her books include Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics and the co-edited volume Cultural Seeds: Essays on the work of Nick Cave. Her co-authored book Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964 received the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
