Coroner's Report into The Death of Innocence
Exhibit F Lexicon of Lived Evidence
Exhibit G: Lexicon of seven pieces of lived evidence with photos and sound (Aldo 2025).
Included in Coroner's Inquest Report into: The Death of Innocence
Submitted to Deakin University Masters of Literature and Creative Writing ALL705 Vision and Revision: Short Stories Now.
Fire and Bone Writing
My writing is forged from the raw elements of living and dying, shaped by memory, spirit, and silence.
These are stories that carry both the heat of transformation and the marrow of truth.
Ajanta | Stories of Fire and Bone
I am a writer, poet, and visual artist whose work lives at the crossroads of memory, spirituality, and the elemental world. My practice weaves together memoir, poetry, and hybrid forms that move between the formal and the experimental, the intimate and the universal.
As the founder of Ajanta’s Cave Press, I create works that hold space for truth-telling and transformation. Much of my writing engages with death and dying; not only as endings, but as thresholds, portals, and teachers. Through this lens, I explore legacy, grief, and the many ways love endures beyond absence.
I am also drawn to the spiritual and the esoteric: the subtle currents of silence, the unseen, the archetypal. My writing has long been nourished
by Buddhist philosophy, by contemplative practices, and by the conviction that the invisible is as real and formative as what can be named.
As a Witness of Quiet Truths, I give voice to what is easily overlooked: the textures of ordinary life, the patterns of history carried in families, the shadows and glimmers that live in personal story. My words invite readers into spaces where beauty and difficulty coexist, where reflection is possible, and where deeper ways of seeing can take root.
Ajanta Writing Selection
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Academic 2200 word creative essay written as lyrical prose. It examines historical happenings and related personal experiences which profoundly impacted my early life. The foremost occurrence was the abduction and disappearance of seven-year-old Linda Stilwell in 1968.
CORONER'S INQUEST into the DEATH of INNOCENCE | CRITICAL REFLECTION | 2025
Academic 500 critical reflection of Coroner's Inquest Report short story submitted to Deakin University Masters Creative Writing & Literature ALL705 Vision and Revision: Short Stories Now.
TO WHAT EXTENT CAN THE ARGONAUTS BE DESCRIBED AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LYRIC ESSAY? | 2021
Academic 2329 word critical essay
for Masters Creative Writing & Literature ALL748 Life Writing Now.
Critique of Maggie Nelson's novel, The Argonauts in relation to a lyrical essay.
Academic 500 word exegesis. critical and theoretical interpretation and scholarly explanation of the lyrical prose essay, Foul Play. Includes references; primary and secondary sources.
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THESE HANDS, EXTREME PRESENCE and OTHER MINORITIES | 2022
Academic 1100 word serial poem submitted to Deakin University Masters Creative Writing & Literature ALL727 Sex, the Body and American Poetry. 'The poet seeks to convey what is often ineffable; to translate experience, thought, feeling and emotion through their poetry so the reader receives the full impact.
CORONER'S INQUEST into the DEATH of INNOCENCE | 2025​
Academic 1600 word revisionary short story written as a Coroner's Inquest Report Submitted to Deakin University Masters Creative Writing & Literature ALL705 Vision and Revision: Short Stories Now.
THESE HANDS, EXTREME PRESENCE and OTHER MINORITIES | CRITICAL REFLECTION | 2022
Academic 1000 word critical reflection of serial poem: These Hands, Extreme Presence and Other Minorities. Submitted for Deakin University Masters Creative Writing & Literature ALL727 Sex, the Body and American Poetry. ' Includes references; primary and secondary sources.
BISEXUALITY: THE GREAT DIVIDE | HONOURS THESIS | 1996
Academic 16,000 words thesis completed for LaTrobe University Double Major - Women's Studies & Social Sciences with a psychoanalytic stream.
Argues the innate bisexuality of women using theories of the unconscious.​​
'ONE IS NOT BORN, BUT RATHER BECOMES A WOMAN' | 1995
Academic Women's Studies Feminist Theory essay examining Mary Wollstonecraft and Simone de Beauvoir's constructivist accounts of gender identity.
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