Angelo Loukakis : Committee Member

Angelo Loukakis has worked as a writer, teacher, scriptwriter, editor and publisher. He is the author of the fiction titles For the Patriarch, Vernacular Dreams, Messenger, and The Memory of Tides. He has also written a number of non-fiction works, including most recently a book of the SBS television series Who Do You Think You Are? (Pan Macmillan 2008). His collection of short stories, For the Patriarch, was winner of a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award. His latest novel, Houdini’s Flight, was released in June 2010 (HarperCollins Publishers). Angelo has taught writing, publishing and editing subjects at the University of Technology, Sydney and the Australian Catholic University, Strathfield. He is a past member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and chair of the New South Wales Writers’ Centre. In 2010 he was appointed executive director of the Australian Society of Authors.