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Contemporary literary fiction
The Deferred Identity
A literary novel about a woman who returns to painting and confronts the life she postponed.
Anthony P. Osalla · Author, educator and writer
Writing to understand what lives beneath the surface.
Books about identity, education, memory, belonging and the structures that shape how people understand themselves and one another.
Four works in development · Fiction and nonfiction
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Literary narrative nonfiction
A Promise of a Son to the Gold Jar
A son examines memory, labour, migration, grief and the promises that remain after his father’s death.
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Literary narrative nonfiction
The Pursuit of Understanding
An intellectual autobiography about learning to move from appearances to structures and certainty to revision.
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Professional nonfiction
Starting Again Without Starting From Zero
A practical adaptation guide for international educators translating experience across professional systems.
Melbourne, AustraliaCurrent work
In editorial developmentThe Deferred Identity
“Some lives are lived. Others are set aside.”
After her mother’s death, Mara Ellison returns to her childhood home and finds the paintings she abandoned at nineteen. As she begins to paint again, the marriage she and Nathan have carefully maintained is forced to confront what each of them postponed.
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