Semester 1, 2024
Publishers
Name: Per Henningsgaard
Organisational role: Publisher
Major/degree: BA in English, PhD in English & Cultural Studies
Most likely to: Eat lollies until his teeth fall out.
Favourite book: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Highlight of your time at Curtin: Founding a publishing house!
Name: Brooke Burke-Montomery
Organisational role: Deputy Publisher
Major/degree: MA in Professional Writing & Publishing
Most likely to: Interrupt any conversation with a very strange anecdote!
Favourite book: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Highlight of your degree: The brilliant people I have met (staff and fellow students!) who have guided me and given me so much confidence in myself, my writing, and my abilities!
Directors
Name: Rose Evans (Hopper)
Organisational role: Acquisitions Co-Director
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing, Creative Writing
Favourite book: Percy Jackson (and anything else) by Rick Riordan
Highlight of your degree: The workshopping — I've really come out of my shell when it comes to sharing my creative writing and no longer feel nervous to receive feedback.
Name: Lauren Hancock-Coffey
Organisational role: Acquisitions Co-Director
Major/degree: BA in Linguistics, MA in Professional Writing & Publishing
Most likely to: Get lost in her ever-growing book collection... literally.
Favourite book: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Highlight of your degree: Starting an online specfic journal, Banksia Journal.
Name: Sophie Whettingsteel
Organisational role: Editorial Director
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing, specialising in English & Cultural Studies
Most likely to: Go rogue on a knitting pattern and have to redo it five times.
Favourite book: Pod by Lalline Paul
Highlight of your degree: Being able to have in-depth analytical discussions on everything.
Name: Emily Maunder
Organisational role: Design & Production Director
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing, specialising in Graphic Design
Most likely to: Find a way to include horses in everything.
Favourite book: Enemies by Tijan Meyer
Highlight of your degree: Discovering a major passion for typesetting and design in publishing
Name: Steph Duncan
Organisational role: Marketing & Digital Co-Director
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing, specialising in Interior Architecture and Corporate Screen Production
Most likely to: Be so engrossed on Pinterest she has absolutely no awareness of her surroundings.
Favourite book: The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
Highlight of your degree: Going on a community and sustainability-focused study tour to Mumbai!
Name: Sophie Marshall
Organisational role: Marketing & Digital Co-Director
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing, BComm in Public Relations
Most likely to: Buy three new books instead of reading the untouched ones on her shelf.
Favourite book: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Highlight of your degree: The editing units!
Associates
Name: Samantha Hearn
Organisational role: Acquisitions Associate
Major/degree: BA in Education (Early Childhood), MA in Professional Writing & Publishing
Most likely to: Be daydreaming/planning her next holiday.
Favourite book: Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Highlight of your degree: Being able to pursue my passion for writing, reading & publishing.
Name: Louella Anthony
Organisational role: Editorial Associate
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing, BComm in Accounting
Favourite book: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Highlight of your degree: The wide variety of work in the Publishing Studio unit.
Name: Scott Price
Organisational role: Editorial Associate
Major/degree: BA Professional Writing & Publishing, Creative Writing
Favourite book: The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Highlight of your degree: Experiencing university culture.
Name: Ella Harwood
Organisational role: Design & Production Associate
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing, Creative Writing
Most likely to: Drop something while someone is talking.
Favourite book: Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour
Highlight of your degree: Trying anything and everything, succeeding and failing.
Name: Ash Tones
Organisational role: Design & Production Associate
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing, Digital & Social Media
Most likely to: Trip and fall over nothing. Like literally NOTHING.
Favourite book: Rivergod by Wilbur Smith
Highlight of your degree: Realising I don't hate writing after all.
Name: Cameron Davis
Organisational role: Marketing Associate
Major/degree: MA in Professional Writing & Publishing
Favourite book: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
