Inez Baranay

Inez Baranay was born in Naples, Italy of Hungarian parents who emigrated to Australia when she was a baby. She was educated in the western suburbs of Sydney then moved to the inner city. She lived in Malaya with her parents as a teenager for two years, and began her adult travels with a trip to Bali in the late 1970s. She began publishing short prose fiction in small-press and then main-stream anthologies in the early 1980s. She is the author of ten published books, most recently the novel Always Hungry. Her previous novel With The Tiger was first published in India, where she has been many times over the last thirty years, including periods as a writer-in-residence at Madras University, as an Asialink Fellowship holder, as a speaker at many conferences and as a student of Iyengar Yoga. With The Tiger is a contemporary retelling of the Somerset Maugham classic The Razor's Edge. Her previous novel Neem Dreams, set in southern India, was also first published there and so was the non-fiction sun square moon: writings in yoga and writing. Her non-fiction includes Rascal Rain: a Year in Papua New Guinea. Inez has also published essays, stories, reviews and travel pieces. She was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing in 2003. Inez has taught creative writing in universities, schools and community groups, given many readings, been a guest at conferences, seminars and festivals, and been a resident at various international writers' centres. All her books are available as ebooks. Since late 2011 she has lived in Istanbul. Her latest events and locations are noted on the Newsblog section of her website.