Sonya Voumard


Sonya Voumard is an Australian writer and lecturer who has taught non-fiction for many years at the University of Technology Sydney and most recently at Southern Cross University. Voumard has published one work of fiction, two book length works of non-fiction and several articles for Australian newspapers, magazines and literary journals. Prior to academia, Voumard spent over 20 years as a journalist working for major newspapers and magazines in Australia such as; The Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age. Voumard's academic articles have also been published in Meanjin, Griffith Review and Island.
In 2015, Voumard achieved a Doctorate of Creative Arts at UTS with her dissertation titled; "The Power Dynamics between Journalists and their Human Subjects".
As an author and an essayist, Voumard's work encompasses a variety of themes but specialises in the ethics of storytelling and questions of story ownership in the context of non-fiction and memoir.
Voumard's first work Political Animals was inspired by her time as a political correspondent for the Age in Canberra.
The Media and the Massacre was long listed for both the Stella award and the Nita B Kibble literary award.