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Canstar’s Content Lead, Mandy Beaumont, has had a long career in the publishing and university sector as an award-winning author, journalist and creative writing academic. She’s been a course convenor in creative writing and ­­­­communications at Griffith University for more than a decade, holds a PhD and a master’s in creative writing from RMIT and QUT respectively, and has written for The Big Issue, Melbourne Writers Festival, the Australian Council of Trade Unions the Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union, as well as many other well-known newspapers and journals in Australia and overseas. Mandy’s short fiction writing and her novels have won, been shortlisted and longlisted for prestigious prizes and awards such as The Stella Award, the QLD Literary Awards, the Richell Prize, the Dorothy Hewitt Award and the MOTH International Short Story Award. Mandy will have a new novel out with one of Australia’s largest publishing houses, Hachette Publishing in early 2025 called The Thrill of It. After many years of working with trade unions and renting, Mandy has a keen interest­­­ in superannuation (particularly worker’s capital) and the housing market in Australia.