Rae Joyce (Rachel Fenton) interview

ABSTRACT

Rae Joyce (Rachel Fenton) is a working-class graphic poet from Yorkshire, UK, currently living in Aotearoa New Zealand. After winning the Auckland University of Technology Graphic Fiction Prize, she was selected to participate in the New Zealand Book Council Graphic Novelist Exchange Residency in association with the Publishers Association of New Zealand and the Taipei International Book Exhibition, the resulting collaboration was published as Island to Island (Dala). Co-Editor of Three Words, An Anthology of Aotearoa Women’s Comics (Beatnik), Rae was also awarded a Creative New Zealand Arts Grant to research, write and illustrate a graphic biography of Mary Taylor, early feminist, unsung novelist, New Zealand businesswoman and best friend of Charlotte Bronte, for which she is seeking publication. Also known as Rachel J Fenton, she is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

KEYWORDS:

• Rae Joyce
• graphic poetry
• graphic interview
• women’s comics
• history
• graphic art
• graphic biography

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Notes on contributors

Aswin Prasanth

Aswin Prasanth is a research scholar in English at Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, India. He studied English Language and Literature at Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, India. Film Studies, Television Studies, Cultural Studies, Postmodern Literature, Graphic Novels, Comic Books and Absurd Theatre are his areas of interest.

Rajesh Panhathodi

Rajesh Panhathodi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, India. He studied English Language and Literature at the University of Hyderabad, India. South Asian Popular Culture, Graphic Narratives and Visual Culture are his areas of interest.

Augustine George

Augustine George is a research scholar in English at Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, India. He did his MPhil in English Language and Literature from Kannur University, India. Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Sci-Fi Studies, Film Studies, Television Studies, Horror Studies and Monster Studies are his areas of interest.