Catherine Deveny is dyslexic and has been a professional writer for 32 years. She is the author of 10 books, has appeared on Q&A five times, and published over 1000 columns in The Age newspaper. She’s been a regular on the ABC, performed four one-woman stand-up shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and appeared in the Emmy Award-winning Go Back To Where You Came From.
When I was young, people used to say, “You’ll never be a writer because you can’t spell,” and I’d reply, “I don’t want to be a speller, I want to be a writer.”
Thuy On is the former Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
Threads: @thuy_on123 Instagram: poemsbythuy
