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Marina Deller
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about
my work
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about
my work
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contact

my work

Learn more about what I do and why in my ‘about’ page. Scroll for examples of my work across different formats and contexts.

creative & non-fiction writing​​

  • 'The Myth of the Lonely Artist' - multimedia exhibition (poetry/photography), exhibited at The Mill, April-June, 2025.

  • 'Non-binary bodies in non-fiction: From stray cats to endless oceans' - essay, Archer Magazine online, 2024.

  • 'Names have been changed' - short memoir, Jacaranda Journal 11.1, 2024.

  • 'Dresses, heavy with water' - short memoir, Westerly online, 2023.

  • ​'The Wardrobe' - visual memoir, Baby Teeth Journal, 2022.​

  • 'Tadpoles' - poem, painted on the streets of Adelaide as part of Raining Poetry in Adelaide, 2022.

  • ​'Compulsory heterosexuality and the healing power of queer historical fiction' - personal essay, Archer Magazine online, 2022.

  • ​'Nostos' - short story, Voiceworks, 2022.

Two black-and-white photos of trees and sky with handwritten lyrics on power lines. The first says, 'In evening and morning wandering, I hear bird song, I try to join in, They turn their heads and eye me.' The second says, 'in suspicion or good humor, I am not sure. They sing me shries more beautiful by far than anything I will ever write.'
A person lying in bed at night, looking at a smartphone screen with another person sleeping beside them.

general audience​ & journalism

  • 'Book review: Someone Like Me: An anthology of non-fiction by Autistic writers.' review, InDaily, 2025.

  • 'Re-meeting Adelaide.' article, City Mag (print and online), 2024.

  • 'Head in the hills: Adelaide-based artists find inspiration in the Adelaide Hills.' article, InDaily, 2024.

  • 'A submerged continent of grief surfaces in Gideon Haigh's memoir of his brother's death.' review, The Conversation, 2024.

  • 'Grave cleaning videos are going viral on TikTok. Are they honouring the dead, or exploiting them?' co-authored article with Edith Hill, The Conversation, 2024.

  • 'Behind studio doors: what Adelaide artists have been whipping up over winter.' article, CityMag, 2024.

  • 'From two-metre brush strokes to tiny tattoos, Jas Crisp is making her mark.' article, CityMag, 2024.

  • 'Real comedy, real trauma: how Baby Reindeer and Feel Good are forging a new television genre.' co-authored article with Kate Douglas, The Conversation, 2024.

  • ​''Toxic positivity' is out: welcome to the new world of indulgent pettiness.' article, The Conversation, 2024.

  • ''The hardest and most beautiful conversation I’ve ever had': how end-of-life storytelling on TikTok helps us process death' co-authored article with Edith Hill, The Conversation, 2023.

An open box containing various items including a spiral notebook, several coins, a photograph of a woman and a young child, papers and folders.

academic/research

  • '"Home takes many forms": Food, Objects, and Bodies as Markers of “Home” in Australian Literary Magazine Essays' - journal article, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2024.

  • 'Supporting Students to See the Work of English' - co-authored journal article, Journal of Language, Literature, and Culture, 2024.

  • '"Show and Tell": The Risks and Rewards of Personal Object-Based Learning' - chapter in an edited collection, Teaching Life Writing: Theory, Methodology, and Practice, 2024.

  • 'Outside the Box: Reading Material Grief Memoir as Grief Archive' - journal article, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2024.

  • ​'Affective ambush: An Autotheoretical Approach to Understanding Emotions as Useful to the Research Process' - co-authored journal article, Life Writing, 2024.

  • ​'Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference' - journal article, Life Writing, 2024.

  • ​'The Same Self/ie: Blurring Academic, Creative, and Personal Identity through the Taking and Sharing of Self-Portraits' - chapter in an edited collection, Career Narratives of Academic Womanhood, 2023.

  • ​'“Show and Tell”: The Risks and Rewards of Personal-Object-Based Learning' - journal article, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2023

Four people sitting on chairs, engaged in a discussion on stage. One person is speaking into a microphone, while the others listen and smile. Heavy curtains and lit candles are in the background.

media

I regularly share my work and research across media forms. Please contact me using the form above to enquire about interviews, expert opinions, content creation, or other media engagements. See a selection of my media experience below:

radio

  • 'Grave cleaning trend on TikTok: respect or views?' interview on 2SER radio, 2024.

  • 'Venting is good for you' interview with 'Drive' on ABC Radio Hobart, 2024. Time stamp: 1:41:38.​

  • Interview on 'indulgent pettiness' in media with 'Drive' on ABC Radio Sydney, 2024. Time stamp: 0:5:37.​

  • Interview on estrangement narratives with 'Saturday Breakfast' on ABC Radio Perth, 2023. Time stamp: 2:05:56.​

  • 'Could social media make us less scared of death?' interview with 'Life Matters' on ABC Radio National with Edith Hill, 2023.​

online articles

  • Reviewed, ‘Traces of everything around me’: Telling the writer’s story’, InReview, 2025.

  • Interviewed for the article 'Allan's final resting spot, husband in a handbag', The Canberra Times, 2023.

​social media​

  • 'Marina and Edith take you through a week in the life of a PhD student at Flinders' - co-authored Instagram Reel for Flinders University with Edith Hill, 2022.​

blog features

  • 'In touch with... Marina Deller' interview with Flinders University, 2023.​

  • 'How academic friendship transformed our PhD experience' - co-authored blog post for Flinders University with Edith Hill, 2022.

I live, work, and create on Kaurna and Peramangk land. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

All photographs on this site (besides the ‘my work’ page) are by Bri Hammond, with thanks.

contact

marinadeller@outlook.com