Camilla Cripps is an academic and fiction editor and a lecturer in the editing and publishing program at the University of Southern Queensland. Living on Dharawal land on the south coast of New South Wales, she has a special interest in Australian short-form fiction. Through her interdisciplinary research into trauma-informed practice – spanning education, creative arts and psychology – Camilla raises awareness of the importance of wellbeing in the creative arts, and how trauma affects the praxis of publishers, editors, and authors. At present, she is testing the efficacy of a set of trauma-informed guidelines for editors; implementing best-practice self-care in early editing and publishing education to better prepare budding publishers for the rigours of the industry; and investigating workshop-based person-centred story-telling and legacy artmaking for regional Australians with terminal cancer.

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Camilla has a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) and Bachelor of Arts (English Literatures) from the University of Wollongong, a Master of Editing and Publishing (with distinction) from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) and is a current doctoral candidate in the UniSQ School of Creative Arts.