Carly-Jay Metcalfe
Carly-Jay Metcalfe (born 1976) is a writer of memoir, nonfiction and literary fiction from Queensland, Australia. Metcalfe was born with Cystic Fibrosis and at the age of 21, she had a double lung transplant. At this time, she had less than a week to live. At the age of thirty, she survived a rare gynaecological cancer.
Her critically acclaimed memoir Breath[1] was published by University of Queensland Press in 2024. It has received widespread critical acclaim from noted literary critics and writers such as Caroline Overington (The Australian), Cass Moriarty[2], Fiona Wright[3], and others.[4]
She has spoken and written about her life with Cystic Fibrosis, organ donation advocacy, transplantation, and the need to have more honest conversations about dying and death. Metcalfe delivered a TED-X talk in 2014 called 'Learning to Die'[5] Her views on these topics have garnered frequent and widespread national media attention.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
References
- ↑ Metcalfe, Carly-Jay (2024). Breath. Australia: University of Queensland Press (published 27 February 2024). ISBN 9780702268359. Search this book on
- ↑ "Breath – Carly-Jay Metcalfe | Cass Moriarty Author". Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ↑ Wright, Fiona (2024-03-09). "Breath". The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ↑ "Liz Sutherland reviews Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe". Mascara Literary Review. 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ↑ Metcalfe, Carly-Jay (5 October 2014). "Learning to die". YouTube. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- ↑ "Carly-Jay on dying, living, and learning to breathe In 2024, Metcalfe won the Queensland Book of the Year People's Choice Award at the Queensland Literary Awards [url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/get-involved/awards-and-fellowships/queensland-literary-awards She has made appearances at the Brisbane Writers Festival and the Canberra Writers Festival". ABC listen. 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ↑ "The February 25 Edition". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2024-02-25. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ↑ Weekly, The Australian Women's (2024-05-13). "Carly-Jay Metcalfe talks about her battle with cystic fibrosis | AWW". The Australian Women's Weekly. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ↑ "I'm learning to live with the guilt of my organ donor's death". The Guardian. 2022-02-26. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ↑ Drysdale, Caitlin (8 August 2015). "Dying to Know Day promotes death literacy". Courier-Mail. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- ↑ "Five minutes with author Carly-Jay Metcalfe". HerCanberra. 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
- ↑ Brading, Laura (2024-03-16). ""How My Transplant Changed Me In Ways I Didn't Expect"". primer. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
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