Marion May Campbell is a prize-winning author who has written novels, theatre works, poetry, short fiction, essays, reviews and academic literary papers. She has been the recipient of awards, literature grants and residencies, including one at the Freie Universität, Berlin. She studied French and German literature and has subsequently taught French, comparative literature and creative writing at various Australian universities. She currently supervises graduate writing projects at the University of Melbourne. konkretion is her fifth work of fiction.