Michelle Aung Thin
RMIT University
Michelle Aung Thin teaches at RMIT University in Australia. Her most recent novel, Hasina (Allen & Unwin 2019) is about ethnic cleansing in Rakhine state and will be published as Crossing the River Farak (Annick 2020) in North America. Her first novel, The Monsoon Bride, (Text 2011) is set in colonial Burma. Her academic interests range from the cultural history of hybrid identities, such as Anglo-Burmese, to contemporary arts practices in Myanmar. In 2017, she was a National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellow (supported by the Eva Kollsman and Ray Mathew Trust) and in 2014, the first Asialink writer in residence to Myanmar (funded by Arts Victoria).
