NOËLLE JANACZEWSKA is a playwright, poet and essayist. She is the author of The Book of Thistles (UWA Publishing)—which fuses memoir, monologue, environmental history, archival collage and digressions—and the collection Scratchland (UWA Publishing Poetry Series). A graduate of Oxford and London Universities with a Doctorate from the University of Technology Sydney, she is the recipient of multiple awards, fellowships and residencies, including the NSW Premier’s Digital History Prize, a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, the Griffin Award, multiple AWGIE Awards and a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale for her body of work as a dramatist. Noëlle’s writing has been produced, broadcast and published internationally as well as locally. Recent productions include: The Past is a Wild Party, The End of Winter and Good With Maps—all three produced by Siren Theatre Company; Mrs C Private Detective and Experiment Street for ABC Radio National; Yellow Yellow Sometimes Blue and Teacup in a Storm for the Q Theatre/Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. Performance essays are a key part of Noëlle’s writing practice. A hybrid form she has developed which combines big picture thinking with the intimacy of the theatrical monologue.