Just A Spoonful's 2021 season continues with best-selling author, Aurealis Award winner, journalist, screenwriter and assistant film curator at the ACMI museum of screen culture: Maria Lewis!

Maria is a stroke survivor (this year is actually her 10 year 'stroke-iversary') who thought they only happened to older people until she found herself in Emergency in her early 20s. We talk about the lifelong after-effects of stroke and how it changed the way her brain works, something she still navigates in her career. We also talk about Mariah Carey fandom and how it feels for Maria (no H) to see her own fans tattoo her own creations onto their bodies.

Maria Lewis's seventh novel in the Supernatural Sisters series - The Rose Daughter - came out five months after we recorded this conversation so we talk about her writing that, her previous novels, and why she feels fortunate to be able to wrap up the series on her own terms. Also how good is THERAPY.

SBS The Feed's short documentary on young stroke survivors: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/young-stroke-survivors-in-australia-the-face-you-wouldn-t-expect

Find Maria Lewis here:http://marialewis.com.auhttps://twitter.com/moviemazzhttps://instagram.com/maria___lewis

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Podcast artwork by Melbourne-based artist Erin Michelle

Just A Spoonful's theme music is 'Sleepless' by Anna O

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