Rijn Collins
RIJN COLLINS is an award-winning Australian writer with a background in linguistics, a future in Iceland, and a passion for stories of the odd and obsessive. Her first published writing was in punk zines in the nineties, collaborations between members of an international feminist punk collective. Over one hundred of her short stories have been published in anthologies and literary journals, broadcast on Australian and American radio, and performed at literary festivals. She’s the author of Voice (Somekind Press, 2021), a micro-memoir detailing her exploration of identity through three languages she holds close: Icelandic, Flemish and Irish. Her debut novel, Fed to Red Birds (Simon and Schuster, 2023) revolves around her love of the Icelandic land, language and reverence for storytelling, and the role of the outsider.