Claire Varley is a writer and consultant working in health promotion, primary prevention and community development.
She is the author of two novels: The Book of Ordinary People (2018) and The Bit In Between (2015), both published by Pan Macmillan. Her novels are represented by Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary.
Her fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in many places, including Going Down Swinging, Overland, The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings and a number of collections.
Claire provides a range of consulting services to health promotion, community development and primary prevention organisations. She has worked in the women’s health, gender equity and gendered violence prevention sectors, and has coordinated community development projects in Australia and overseas, including remote Solomon Islands and with refugee and asylum seekers in Melbourne’s outer north.
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