Marion May Campbell

Marion May Campbell was born in Sydney, New South Wales, 1948.{{cite web |title= Marion Campbell |publisher= NNDB |url= http://www.nndb.com/people/646/000140226/ |access-date= 2007-09-14}} Campbell earned a BA in French Literature studying first at the University of New South Wales and completing her degree at the University of Western Australia.{{cite web|title=Biography |publisher=University of Melbourne |url=http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/campbellmm.html |access-date=2007-09-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829223839/http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/campbellmm.html |archive-date=29 August 2007 }} She then pursued her post-graduate study at Aix en Provence, writing a dissertation on the work of Stéphane Mallarmé and completed a PhD in Literary Studies and Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2011.{{Cite web|title = Marion May Campbell|url = https://deakin.academia.edu/MarionMayCampbell/CurriculumVitae|website = Deakin University – Academia.edu|access-date = 2015-11-05}}

Campbell's novels explore professional and personal relationships between women and literary theoretical concerns, often in a non-standard 'experimental' writing style. In addition to novels, her work includes short fiction, poetry, and essays and reviews for journals. For the stage, Campbell has written the musical theatre piece Dr. Memory in the Dream Home which was first performed in 1990 and an adaption of Not Being Miriam entitled Ariadne's Understudies in 1991.

In 2013, Campbell was appointed Associate Professor of Professional and Creative Writing at Deakin University. Campbell has previously coordinated the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne.

• Shortlisted twice for the Canada-Australia Prize
• 1989 – winner of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Not Being Miriam{{cite web|title="Australian Literary Awards: Western Australian Premier's" |publisher= University Libraries|url=https://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=341672&p=2299464|access-date= 4 April 2025}}
• 1999 – shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Prowler{{cite web|title=Western Australian Premier's Book Awards – 2006 Shortlist |publisher=State Library of Western Australia |url=http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/pbk06shlst.html |access-date=2007-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829021047/http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/pbk06shlst.html |archive-date=29 August 2007 |url-status=dead }}
• 2006 – shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Shadow Thief

• {{cite book |author=Campbell, Marion May |title=Lines of flight : a novel |location=Fremantle, WA |publisher=Fremantle Arts Centre Press |year=1985}}
• {{cite book |author=Campbell, Marion May |author-mask=1 |title=Not being Miriam |location=Fremantle, WA |publisher=Fremantle Arts Centre Press |year=1988}}
• Prowler (Fremantle Arts Centre, 1999) {{ISBN|1-86368-251-1}}
• Shadow Thief (Pandanus, 2006) {{ISBN|1-74076-189-8}}
• Konkretion (University of Western Australia Press, 2013)

• Dr Memory in the Dream Home (PICA, 1990)
• Ariadne's Understudies (PICA, 1992)
• The Half-Life of Creonite (not yet performed){{cite web |title= Marion May Campbell |publisher= Australian Script Centre |url= http://www.ozscript.org/author.php?id=3216 |access-date= 2007-09-14 |url-status= usurped |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070909231512/http://www.ozscript.org/author.php?id=3216 |archive-date= 9 September 2007 }}

• Languish (Upswell, 2022){{Cite web |title=Marion May Campbell – languish launched… – Writing, Literature and Culture @Deakin |url=https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/writing-and-literature/marion-may-campbell-languish-launched/ |access-date=2022-05-17 |language=en-AU}}
• {{cite book|author=Various authors |editor-last=Jarquín |editor-first=Carlos Javier |editor-link=Carlos Javier Jarquín |title=Canto planetario: hermandad en la Tierra |url= |year=2023 |publisher=HC Editores |location=Costa Rica |isbn=979-8850092115 }}

• The Man on the Mantlepiece (University of Western Australia Press, 2018)

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070829223839/http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/campbellmm.html Marion M Campbell] at University of Melbourne (Retrieved 14 September 2007)
• [http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/marionm-campbell.html Marion M Campbell: Lecturer, Creative Writing – Biography] Melbourne University, Faculty of Arts, School of Culture and Communication (Retrieved 14 September 2007)
• McCulloch, A. (2006) The Casting of Shadows and the Finding of Form. Book review: Marion Campbell, Shadow Thief (Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2006), Southerly: a review of Australian literature, Vol 66, No 2, pp. 129–133, English Association, Sydney Branch, Australia.

• {{cite journal |date=April 2013 |title=Open Page with Marion May Campbell |journal=Australian Book Review |volume=350 |pages=68 |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2013/98-april-2013-no-350/1410-open-page-with-marion-may-campbell |access-date=2015-09-17}} (Interview)
• {{cite journal |author=Allington, Patrick |date=April 2013 |title=Questions and questing |journal=Australian Book Review |volume=350 |pages=21 |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2013/98-april-2013-no-350/1403-questions-and-questing |access-date=2015-08-07}} (Review of Konkretion.)

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