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Robyn Mundy Robyn Mundy i(A127438 works by)
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Dr Robyn Mundy is the author of the novel The Nature of Ice, published by Allen & Unwin (2009), and co-author of the young reader’s reference book Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages, published by Five Mile Press (2010) and Kingfisher USA (2011). Her short fiction has appeared in Australian and American literary journals and in The Best Australian Stories 2013. Robyn has summered and wintered at Australian Antarctic Stations, working as a field assistant on science projects. She has taken part in over 90 eco-tourism voyages to Antarctica and the European Arctic in her seasonal role as Assistant Expedition Leader for Aurora Expeditions. Her experiences and interest in remote natural regions inform her writing. Robyn Mundy has worked as a Postdoctoral Arts Research Fellow and sessional Arts lecturer at Edith Cowan University South West, Bunbury, Western Australia.

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Everlastings 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 59 no. 2 2014; (p. 31-39)
2013 third place Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Award
y separately published work icon The Nature of Ice Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1627646 2009 single work novel

Freya has come to Antarctica ostensibly to undertake a photographic expedition to pay tribute to Frank Hurley's iconic images - but also to escape a stifling relationship. Once she is there, though, living in the cramped and close confines of Davis Station, the extraordinary world of Antarctica gets under her skin and she starts to unfurl, finding her world change in ways she would never previously have thought possible.

Weaving a vivid re-creation of Douglas Mawson's ill-fated 1911-14 Antarctic expedition into the contemporary story of a woman coming to terms with the breakdown of her marriage, The Nature of Ice is a poetic, multi-stranded novel of present and past, hope and tragedy, love and loss. It is both a love story of place, bringing to vivid life the haunting landscape of Antarctica, the frozen continent that intrigues us all. (Publisher's blurb)
2010 shortlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita May Dobbie Award
Jimmy's Pearl 2003 single work short story
— Appears in: The Iowa Review , vol. 33 no. 3 2003; (p. 67-84)
2003 runner-up Iowa Short Fiction Award
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