Rozanna Lilley has published prolifically as an essayist, poet, short story writer and academic.
Her prose publications include the hybrid prose-poetry memoir, Do Oysters Get Bored? A Curious Life, which was released to significant interest and shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award. Her memoir writing has also been included in Best Australian Essays. Her short stories are published in literary magazines and anthologies.
Rozanna’s poetry has been published widely, and was included in Best Australian Poetry (2015) and Best of Australian Poems (2023). Her first chapbook, The Lady in the Bottle, was published in 2023 through Black Spring Press Group in the UK.
In addition to Rozanna’s creative output, since the late 1980s she has published steadily as an anthropologist. In the last 20 years her qualitative research has explored the lives of autistic people and their families in diverse contexts. She holds PhDs in both Anthropology (Australian National University) and Early Childhood (Macquarie University). In 1998 her book Staging Hong Kong: Gender and Performance in Transition, an ethnography of an avant-garde performance company, was published in the UK by Curzon and in the USA by University of Hawaii Press.