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• Khyiah began her career as a high school computer studies teacher. She taught for ten years before giving up teaching to write young adult fiction. She completed a Masters of Creative Writing while writing her first novel, and worked as a writer-in-...More

  Khyiah began her career as a high school computer studies teacher. She taught for ten years before giving up teaching to write young adult fiction. She completed a Masters of Creative Writing while writing her first novel, and worked as a writer-in-residence in a large Sydney high school, convening young adult writers' groups, for two-and-a-half years while working on her second novel. She is now a candidate for a PhD in Creative Writing at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her degree is practice-led for which the creative component is a multimodal novel for young adults with multiple parallel narrative arcs spanning text, video, augmented reality and kinetic typography. The exegesis component concerns the Phenomenology of Young Adult Reading. Less

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