5 Minutes With ... Inga Simpson
THURSDAY 15 JUN, 2017
Understory was inspired by ...
My affinity with trees and a decade spent living inside a forest on the Sunshine Coast hinterland.
Describe Understory in one sentence:
A journey of staying in one place told through trees.
The best part of writing Understory was ...
Finding a structure for the story, and then the perspective it has given me of my own life.
When I'm not writing I'm ...
Probably reading, walking on the beach, or in a forest somewhere with my camera.
My favourite place to curl up with a book is ...
By an open fire in winter, preferably with a glass of red wine.
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Understory - Inga Simpson
"The understorey is where I live, alongside these plants and creatures. I tend the forest, stand at the foot of trees and look up, gather what has fallen."
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Where The Trees Were - Inga Simpson
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