Philippa Yelland was born in the UK, grew up in Queensland and now lives on a farm north of Canberra. Her award-winning short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies.
Her worldview is optimistic about people’s efforts to live good lives while sceptical about their ability to do this in a zeitgeist of secular materialism.
She believes readers have forsaken post-modernism’s relativism, paranoia and fragmentation and are tired of pseudo-modernism’s ignorance, fanaticism and anxiety. Readers are exhausted – they want gripping stories in which characters grow and do not wave around like sea kelp forests.
The 2,500-word short story, ‘Online dating sucks, it totally sucks’, grew from her experiences – and those of other mature women – of re-entering the dating meat-market after divorce and holding on to the possibility of finding love again.
