Dr Willa McDonald is Senior Lecturer in Media at Macquarie University where she teaches and researches creative non-fiction writing and literary journalism. A former journalist, she has worked in print, television and radio, including for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Times on Sunday, ABC TV and ABC Radio National. Willa’s books are Warrior for Peace: Dorothy Auchterlonie Green (2009) and The Writer’s Reader: Understanding Journalism and Non-fiction (with Susie Eisenhuth, 2007). She is currently researching the history of literary journalism in Australia.