{"id":352,"date":"2014-03-06T00:27:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2014-03-06T00:57:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T00:57:27","slug":"marcella-polain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Marcella Polain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/marcellaPolain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-57\" alt=\"marcellaPolain\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/marcellaPolain-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born in Singapore in 1958,\u00a0 Marcella Polain migrated to Perth at two, with her Armenian mother and Irish father. She has worked in theatre, screen-writing, and as a teacher, and currently lectures in the Writing program at Edith Cowan University. She has been poetry editor for <i>Westerly<\/i> and <i>Blue Dog<\/i>. Her first poetry collection, <i>Dumbstruck<\/i> (1996), won the Anne Elder Prize; <i>Each Clear Night<\/i> (2000), was short-listed for the WA Premier\u2019s Award. Her PhD in 2006 explored her family\u2019s survival of the Armenian genocide. Her novel, <i>The Edge of the World <\/i>(2007, Fremantle Press), was short-listed for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize for First Book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Singapore in 1958,\u00a0 Marcella Polain migrated to Perth at two, with her Armenian mother and Irish father. She has worked in theatre, screen-writing, and as a teacher, and currently lectures in the Writing program at Edith Cowan University. She has been poetry editor for Westerly and Blue Dog. Her first poetry collection, Dumbstruck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}