Sonya Voumard

Sonya Voumard is an Australian writer and lecturer who has taught non-fiction for many years at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and most recently at Southern Cross University.[1] Voumard has published one work of fiction (2008), two book length works of non-fiction and several articles for Australian newspapers, magazines and literary journals.[2] Prior to academia, Voumard spent over 20 years as a journalist working for major newspapers and magazines in Australia such as; The Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age. Voumard's academic articles have also been published in Meanjin, Griffith Review and Island. [3]

In 2015, Voumard achieved a Doctorate of Creative Arts at UTS with her dissertation titled; "The Power Dynamics between Journalists and their Human Subjects".[4]

As an author and an essayist, Voumard's work encompasses a variety of themes but specialises in the ethics of storytelling and questions of story ownership in the context of non-fiction and memoir.[5][6]

Voumard's first work Political Animals (2008) was inspired by her time as a political correspondent for the Age in Canberra.[5]

The Media and the Massacre (2016) was long listed for both the Stella award (2017) and the Nita B Kibble literary award (2018).[7][8]