Bio
Sita Rose Bennett is a Nordic-Australian author and actress who was raised on the coast of Margaret River, W.A, and started acting in theatre, appearing in her first film at a young age. Since studying acting and writing, then disappearing into a monastery for a few years, she has published a series of fantasy books, worked in film and television, and co-created several award-winning art-house films with her brother, director/cinematographer Mana Bennett, which have screened internationally.
She has been accepted into several international writing residencies, including the Westfjords Artist Residency and Gröndal‘s House Iceland, where she wrote ‘A Silent Witness’ a short story and poem published in issue seven of Ós Pressan — the Icelandic literary Journal.
A Personal Note
I was shaped by silence before I found words. Language is a peculiar thing to wrestle with when the most interesting fields of exploration live in the liminal spaces, the spaces in-between, that evade linguistic reach.
For a long time, I disappeared into the exile of illness, into the sanctuary of ancient traditions and wisdom, into pain that instilled a deep reverence for life in the sentience of our impermanence. Pain that pressed me into a place where words & stories became my refuge, and writing, my attempt to harness the intangible.
Storytelling can be many things, but for me, it is a bridge between us and the abstract. A bridge I attempt to cross in some way with each new work, and welcome fellow wanderers with me on the quest for something abstractly true.
