Edwina Preston is a
Melbourne-based writer and musician. Preston is the author of a biography of
Australian artist Howard Arkley, Not Just a Suburban Boy (Duffy &
Snellgrove, 2002), the novel The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer (University of
Queensland Press, 2012), the novel Bad Art Mother (Wakefield Press, 2022), and the novel Sororicidal (Pan MacMillan, 2026). Edwina's writing and reviews have appeared in The Age, The Australian, The Sydney
Morning Herald, Heat, Island and Griffith Review.
Edwina has played in Melbourne bands ATOM, Harry Howard and the
NDE, and Duet. She has performed alongside Lydia Lunch, Mick Harvey, JP Shilo,
Kid Congo, Bobby Gillespie and others, in Australia and overseas. Edwina features
on keyboards and vocals on the recording Kid Congo and the NDE Live in St Kilda, Red Records, 2022.
Edwina began her career as a spoken word artist
and has most recently contributed her spoken word to David Bridie's It's Been A Long Time Since Our Last
Correspondence.
