Julia Prendergast lives in Naarm, Melbourne (unceded Wurundjeri land). Julia is a fiction writer and essayist. Her novel, The Earth Does Not Get Fat was longlisted for the Indie Book Awards (debut fiction). Bloodrust and Other Stories was published in 2022 (fiction of the week: SMH / The Age newspapers). Blent was published in 2025. Julia is a practice-led researcher with a particular interest in neuro|psychoanalytic approaches to creative writing. Her research is available in New Writing, and elsewhere. She is Associate Professor / Discipline Leader (Creative Writing, Literature, and Publishing) at Swinburne University, and President|Chair Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), the peak academic body representing the discipline of Creative Writing in Australasia.