Donna Mazza is an award-winning author of poetry, short fiction and novels. Her debut novel, The Albanian (2007), won the TAG Hungerford Award and she was the Mick Dark Flagship Fellow for Environmental Writing at Varuna, the National Writers House, for her short fiction. Donna teaches literature and writing at Edith Cowan University and lives in a small country town in the South West with her family, including many chickens.
'Provocative, unnerving, and entirely possible. The most
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author of The Eye of the Sheep
'Fauna reminds us of how exquisitely vulnerable our need to love
and to nurture renders us, but tells also of the strength and
wonder of this need, which- even when the definition of the word is
uncertain-must lie at the heart of what it means to be human . . .
Frightening, believable, yet filled with hope and tenderness.'
-Peggy Frew, author of the critically acclaimed Islands
'Fauna is the story of an experiment, as every relationship, every
child, every hope we cling on to is an experiment- a leap into air.
It is lush and corporeal and one of the most honest books I've ever
read about what we carve away for our children from our hearts, our
bodies, and our possible futures. I knew when I started that this
book would end, yet every moment I hoped it wouldn't.' Amanda
Niehaus, author of The Breeding Season
'Fauna lays bare an electrifying genetically re-coded future so
real, so terrifying, so close, I can feel its baby breath soft
against my cheek.' -Robyn Mundy, author of Wild Light
'Mazza's novel asks hard questions, yet brims with compassion. A
thrilling, unsettling read.' -Paddy O'Reilly, author of The Wonders
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