Dr. Georgia (Rose) Phillips is an award-winning writer who publishes fiction, poetry, non-fiction, literary criticism and academic scholarship.
 
She joined the school of Humanities as a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Level B) at the beginning of 2023, after teaching across the Creative Writing Program at The University of New South Wales (UNSW). She holds a BA. English Literature with First Class Honours and a PhD (UNSW). 
 
Her literary-historical novel, The Bearcat, was published by Picador (Aus/NZ) April 2025. The work was listed as one of the most anticipated Australian novels for 2025 by both The Guardian and The Australian’s best books lists. It was also listed in The Saturday Paper's best books of 2025 list. She is currently writing her second literary novel.
 
The work received a strong critical reception. Critics have praised the work’s lyrical prose, acuity, meticulous research, psychological complexity, formal innovation and finely wrought examination of power and the legacies of maternal influence.
 
In The Australian Book Review, Susan Midalia described The Bearcat as an “intelligent, ambitious, and an admirably inventive novel” that it is “linguistically precise, poignantly understated and deftly metaphoric.” She wrote that “The Bearcat shows a short story writer’s talent for combining conciseness and resonance to create engaging moments in time. The writing is enhanced by the poet’s keen ear for the sounds of words and the rhythm of the sentences.”
 
Beyond the strong critical reception of The Bearcat, the merits of Phillips’ shorter-form works have been formally acknowledged with literary prizes and shortlistings. In 2022, her short story ‘Beyond the Marram Grass’ was a shortlisted finalist in the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) Prize. In 2021, her short story ‘New Balance’ was a fiction winner in the Ultimo Literary Prize. In 2018, her creative nonfiction novella, Holocene, was a runner-up in the Scribe Nonfiction Literary Prize.
 
Phillips’ poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, literary criticism and academic work has been published across a series of leading literary and academic journal both nationally and internationally. Her work has appeared in Australian Book Review, Antipodes: A Global Journey of Australian/New Zealand Literature, Going Down Swinging, Kill Your Darlings, Literary Veganism, Meanjin, Meniscus Literary Journal, Overland, Social Alternatives, Southerly, The Conversation, Verity La, Wheeler Centre Notes and more. 
 
In 2021, she was anthologised as one of the leading emerging Australian writers in Ultimo Press’s book Everything, All At Once (2021).
 
Phillips’ has also published peer-reviewed works with several Q1 academic journals. These include the two Q1 Creative Writing journals: New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. She has also published academic work in the Q1 journal Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice.
 
Alongside this, Phillips has published six articles in The Conversation that have contributed to essential debates surrounding contemporary literature and the legacies of literary modernism.
 
Georgia’s research centres on emergent and experimental literary narrative modes, literary aesthetics and politics, and the legacies of literary modernism. Her work engages closely with the phenomenology of literary composition and reading, psychoanalysis, contemporary feminism and life writing, LGBTQIA+ literature, narrative time and temporality, the philosophy of history and pastness, narratology, contemporary poetry and poetics, and ecocriticism/eco‑feminism. She also has a strong interest in animal ethics and in literature’s capacity to challenge speciesism.
 
Georgia is working on her second novel and a book length collection of poems and is represented by Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency: https://www.janenovak.com/
 
Her author website can be viewed here: https://www.georgiarosephillips.com/. 
 
Georgia convenes a variety of courses that cover a wide range of literary forms and literary theory.
 
Georgia has also worked as both a writer and editor in print and digital media and as an academic editor for scholars both inside and outside the disciplines of Creative Writing and English Literature.