Catherine Noske is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English and Literary Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. She completed her PhD in creative writing at Monash University in 2014, with a focus on white Australian practices of writing landscape. Her career includes prior teaching appointments at Monash University and Curtin University. Noske served as Editor of Westerly Magazine from 2015 until 2023 and continues as its Scholarly Editor. She holds editorial roles including Editorial Advisor for the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and Editor for TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs in 2019. Her research specializations cover contemporary Australian literature, contemporary Australian creative practice, creative practices of place-making, ecopoetics, Australian postcolonialism, and transnationalism. Her current research examines settler-colonial consciousness in Australian literature, particularly the writing of Randolph Stow.

Noske has earned major awards such as the A.D. Hope Prize in 2013, the Elyne Mitchell Prize for Rural Women Writers, shortlisting for the Dorothy Hewett Award in 2015, and shortlisting for the 2021 WA Premier’s Book Awards for her debut novel The Salt Madonna (Picador, 2020). Additional honors include an Australia Council Artistic Development Project Grant in 2016 and a Monash University Institute of Graduate Research Postgraduate Publication Award in 2014. Key publications include The Salt Madonna (2020), "Woman, Blazing: A Pastiche" (2025), "Writing Places in the Spaces of AI" (Australian Literary Studies, 2025), "Ngaangk: those sunstruck miles: The 2024 Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture" (Westerly, 2024), "Apeiron" (JASAL Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2023), and "Encountering a Pine Plantation on the Bibbulmun" (chapter in Cuttlefish: Western Australian Poets, 2023). She delivered the 2024 Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture and has judged the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, ALS Gold Medal, WA Premier’s Book Prize, and TAG Hungerford Award. Noske contributes to the academic field through peer review, public lectures, and committee roles.

Professional Email: catherine.noske@uwa.edu.au