Maria Papas’s stories have appeared in Page Seventeen, Lines in the Sand and The Emerging Writer.

In 2011 her play Arbour Day was performed at His Majesty’s Theatre in Perth, where it won the Maj Monologues Competition.

Maria has completed a Master of Creative Arts, producing a manuscript which was longlisted for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and shortlisted for the TAG Hungerford Award.

She tutors at Curtin University, and recently began a PhD at the University of Western Australia.