Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry. In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, The Anchoress, was published.[1] For this novel, she was shortlisted for the 2015 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.[2]
Cadwallader graduated from Monash University and has a PhD in medieval literature from Flinders University. She developed her 2002 thesis, The virgin, the dragon and the theorist : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete into her first book, Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete, published in 2008.[3] In the past, she taught creative writing and medieval literature at the same university.[4]
Cadwallader resides near Canberra, with her husband, Alan Cadwallader, an academic at the Australian Catholic University, and four children.[4]