Briohny Doyle

Briohny Doyle (born April 27, 1983) is a Melbourne-based author, poet, critic, performer and academic. Her debut novel, The Island Will Sink, will be published by The Lifted Brow in August 2016 and her first book of nonfiction, Adult Fantasy (Scribe Publications, 2017), explores the cultural underpinnings of adulthood.

Career

Drawing on post-apocalyptic literature and cli-fi genre fiction, Doyle’s novel The Island Will Sink is set in a near future of runaway climate change and disembodied, technologically mediated relationships. Author Luke Davies has described the book as “adventurous, dense and poetic… I thought of Ballard’s imaginatively coherent, hard-edged, full-fledged imaginings.”[1]

Doyle's book of essays, Adult Fantasy, examines how millennials are altering and expanding the definition of adulthood in the 21st century. Through a pop-cultural framework, Doyle investigates contemporary concepts of youth, work, procreation and ageing, in a style that’s part memoir, part cultural criticism.

Doyle has published fiction, poetry and criticism in publications like The Lifted Brow, Overland, Going Down Swinging and Meanjin. She has performed spoken word at Sydney Festival, the Sydney Writers' Festival, the State Library of New South Wales, the Wheeler Centre and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Her doctoral thesis, 'The Postapocalyptic Imagination', examines apocalyptic literature as a site of radical discourse. Her PhD was conferred in 2015 by Murdoch University.

Doyle works as a Sessional Academic at Deakin and Victoria universities, where she teaches literary studies, journalism and creative writing.

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