On The Road

Gillian Kendall is a freelance writer currently living in Australia. She is the author of two books both published by The University of Wisconsin Press, How I Became a Human Being which she co-wrote with Mark O’Brien and Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas published in September, 2006. She is a regular contributor to The Sun and has published essays or fiction in a number of other periodicals including Curve, Girlfriends and SurfMetro.

Jordan Clary first read Gillian Kendall’s work in The Sun magazine and was taken by her wry humour combined with sometimes painful topics. Clary later met her at one of The Sun retreats where her encouragement on one of her essays helped her to take her own writing more seriously. Since then she has followed Gillian’s work and enjoyed her recently published book, Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet. They caught up recently on the phone for this interview and then followed up through e-mail.

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Photo of Gillian Kendall on the Fox Glacier on the South Island of New Zealand.