Who is Brighton Grace?

The question on nobody’s mind…

I am a 23-year-old queer writer from Sydney, Australia, currently based on Gadigal land. Seeking to preserve audience autonomy and shape form around the 21st-century mindscape, my writings offer refractions of contemporary concerns and excavations of hidden feelings. Another core objective in all of my writing or art is to suggest and provoke but never impose answers.

I have been featured in the Cordite Poetry Review, Maudlin House, Scissors & Spackle, and the Riverstone Literary Journal and am currently completing a Bachelor of Arts and Advanced Studies at The University of Sydney, majoring in English and Film Studies (and Bureaucracy, just like any university student today).

Some of my key influences include: Michael Haneke, Gerald Murnane, Wallace Stevens, Francis Bacon, Sylvia Plath, David Lynch, Samuel Beckett, and Thylias Moss. I am heavily influenced by the distancing/alienation effects formulated and espoused by playwright Bertolt Brecht and filmmaker Michael Haneke.

You can sometimes find me scavenging the wasteland of Twitter for book recommendations @BrightonGrace37, or eroding my attention span on the marginally less problematic option of Instagram under the username brightongrace37.