Tangea Tansley

Tangea Tansley was born in Zimbabwe and lived and worked around the world before settling in Perth, Western Australia over thirty years ago. She holds a PhD in cross-cultural literature from Murdoch University and is the author of three novels, a hybrid collection of short stories/memoir and three works of non-fiction. Her first novel, A Break in the Chain, was longlisted for One Country Reading and the second, Out of Place, shortlisted in a Penguin-Varuna unpublished manuscript competition....See more

Tangea Tansley was born in Zimbabwe and lived and worked around the world before settling in Perth, Western Australia over thirty years ago. She holds a PhD in cross-cultural literature from Murdoch University and is the author of three novels, a hybrid collection of short stories/memoir and three works of non-fiction. Her first novel, A Break in the Chain, was longlisted for One Country Reading and the second, Out of Place, shortlisted in a Penguin-Varuna unpublished manuscript competition. Her stories and essays have been published in journals, newspapers and gazettes both in Australia and overseas, and have won awards in a number of national competitions. See less