Joel Magarey
Formerly a South Australian journalist, Joel Magarey is a Melbourne author and Victorian parliamentary reporter. His memoir of love and adventure with a psychological edge, Exposure: A Journey, was published in August 2009 to praise from J.M. Coetzee, Eva Hornung and the Daily Telegraph, among others. His short fiction, travel stories and poetry have appeared in Australian and American literary magazines including Meanjin, Overland and Quadrant.
Following early careers in Adelaide as an ice salesman and juggler, Joel reported for The Advertiser in the urban, police and politics rounds and later as the paper’s Melbourne correspondent. He has degrees in humanities and creative writing, has mountain-climbed and travelled in many of world’s remotest regions and doesn’t quite know what to do with a qualification to translate documents from Spanish into English but not the other way.
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People everywhere, expose yourselves
When I was a hare-brained 25-year-old travelling around the world, I decided to climb Alaska’s most northerly mountain range, alone,…... Read more
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