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Deborah Prospero

Deborah Prospero lives, works, studies, and writes on Dharug Country in Sydney’s West. A creative non-fiction writer focused on people and placemaking stories, her work has appeared in Refinery29, the Powerhouse Museum, Locative Magazine, and Written Off. In 2026, she guest-edited Written Off Issue 5, won the 2025 My Place in Cumberland competition, and received a Varuna x Whitlam Institute Essay Residency.

Second city, second settlement: Deborah Prospero walks Parramatta with Eda Gunaydin

I’ve been meaning to write about Parramatta for almost two years now. Mainly because I love it here, but also because I feel uneasy at times. A disproportionate amount of my week is spent in Parramatta Square, ever since the corporate offices, the university and the library with its honeycomb roof converged here in 2022.

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