Background
Nicolette Stasko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania to Polish and Hungarian parents.
Nicolette Stasko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania to Polish and Hungarian parents.
She completed a Bachelor with honours in English at Pennsylvania State University and an Master of Arts in education at Lehigh University then taught in special education.
Marrying an Australian in 1978 she travelled in Europe and Asia settling in Perth, Western Australia where she taught at Perth Modern School. In 1986 they moved to Brisbane where she taught and edited The Phoenix Review. During this period she began writing in earnest and had her first poetry published in Australia in the journal Hecate.
She has also published a non-fiction book entitled Oyster: From Montparnasse to Greenwell Point (2000) and most recently the novel The Invention of Everyday Life (2007).