Study Period 3, 2025
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: Sarah Birch
Organisational role: Deputy Publisher
Major/degree: MA in Creative Writing
Most likely to: Love so much it aches.
Favourite book: Banana Girl by Paris Rosemount
Highlight of your degree: Gaining irreplaceable friendships.
Directors
Name: Lauren Switzer
Organisational role: Editorial Director
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing and Creative Writing
Most likely to: Be found in a local independent bookshop.
Favourite book: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Highlight of your degree: Branching out from writing genre fiction to working as an editor.
Name: Juliette Swain
Organisational role: Marketing and Digital Director
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing and Visual Culture
Favourite book: On Women by Susan Sontag
Highlight of your degree: Working at Elephant Page Publishing!
Name: Thane Tempest
Organisational role: Design & Production Director
Major/degree: BA in Literature and Professional Writing
Name: Danica Hehre
Organisational role: Acquisitions Associate
Major/degree: I’m currently a high school student!
Most likely to: Watch bad movies just to make stupid commentary about how bad they are.
Favourite book: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Acquisitions
Name: Leanne Levi
Organisational role: Acquisitions Associate
Major/degree: BA in Creative Writing
Most likely to: Binge watch true crime and compulsively collect plants and books.
Favourite book: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson or The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Highlight of your degree: Discovering a love for experimental forms and speculative fiction and working in the dynamic environment at Elephant Page Publishing.
Name: Hanan El Mir
Organisational role: Acquisitions Associate
Major/degree: BA in Internet Communication & Professional Writing and Publishing
Most likely to: Lose in arm wrestling match against my five year old daughter.
Favourite book: Storm and Silence by Robert Thier
Highlight of your degree: Being part of the university publishing house.
Name: Mustafa Massoud
Organisational role: Acquisitions Associate
Name: Richard Allen
Organisational role: Acquisitions Associate
Editorial
Name: Amanda Webster
Organisational role: Editorial Associate
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing
Most likely to: Forget where the car is parked.
Favourite book: Honeybee by Craig Silvey and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Highlight of your degree: Exploring different genres and uncovering hidden talents in the creative writing units.
Name: Nina de Brequet
Organisational role: Editorial Associate
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing and Creative Writing
Most likely to: Become completely and utterly obsessed with yet another book, movie, or TV series.
Favourite book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Or, could it be One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey?
Highlight of your degree: Subverting generic conventions in the unit Writing Genre Fiction.
Name: Shanthi Malpress
Organisational role: Editorial Associate
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing
Most likely to: Be reading, writing, bookbinding, or learning about one of the three.
Favourite book: There are too many to name, but one of my favourites is The Binding by Bridget Collins
Highlight of your degree: Learning about the technical intricacies of the editing process, specifically structural editing
Name: Kate Minto
Organisational role: Editorial Associate
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing
Most likely to: Hyper-fixate on a character and spiral into a research black hole.
Favourite book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Highlight of your degree: Writing my braided personal essay about Pride and Prejudice across three generations of women in my family. It cracked me open in the best way — equal parts love letter, ghost story, and healing. Also, surviving a double course load with two kids and a full-time job.
Design and Production
Name: Angela Matthews
Organisational role: Design & Production Associate
Major/degree: MA in Professional Writing & Publishing
Most likely to: Do something adventurous that gets adrenaline going. Sky diving, bungy jumping, etc.
Favourite book: The Shining by Stephen King
Highlight of your degree: Having the opportunity to work in a real Publishing studio.
Name: Nigel Hicks
Organisational role: Design & Production Associate
Major/degree: BA in Publishing and Visual Arts
Most likely to: Not say much.
Favourite book: Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
Highlight of your degree: Studying the history of Art. It was very eye-opening.
Marketing & Digital
Name: Louise Mathieson
Organisational role: Marketing and Digital Associate
Major/degree: BA in Professional Writing & Publishing and Creative Writing
Most likely to: Leave an event early to go home and read my Kindle.
Favourite book: It Sounded Better In My Head by Nina Kenwood
Highlight of your degree: Working in a real publishing studio!