Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Clare Simmons from Prose Studies for her support of this special issue. And they would also like to thank the Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities and its director Associate Professor Karen Vered for supporting this event. Thanks to Professor Julie Rak for taking up the role of respondent for the symposium and for her ever insightful, generous, and invaluable comments for the revision of the papers. Finally, thanks to all who took part in this Life Narrative Research Group symposium and for their creativity, intellect, and collegiality that made all of this possible.