In 2018 Rozanna Lilley published Do Oysters Get Bored? A Curious Life, through UWA Publishing. The hybrid memoir was released to significant interest and acclaim, including being shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award.
Her creative nonfiction has been included in Best Australian Essays (2013 & 2014), Mascara Literary Review, Southerly, and Westerly Magazine.
Rozanna’s first published short story, ‘Prayer Bones’, was part of the Verge 2025 – Blue creative anthology, released by Monash University Press. Unidentified phenomena was published in Issue 5 of Locative Magazine, Smoke//Mirrors, in 2026.
Rozanna also has an extensive academic publication record.
A University of Sydney medallist (1988), she has been awarded PhDs in Anthropology (1994, Australian National University) and Early Childhood (2015, Macquarie University), and in 1998 published the book Staging Hong Kong: Gender and Performance in Transition through Curzon and the University of Hawaii Press.