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Carly-Jay Metcalfe (born 1977) is a writer of memoir, poetry, and literary fiction from Queensland, Australia. Metcalfe was born with Cystic Fibrosis. She had a double lung transplant at the age of 21, and survived a rare cancer at the age of 30.

Her 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)[2], Cass Moriarty[3], Fiona Wright[4], and others.[5][6]

She has spoken and written on her life with Cystic Fibrosis, advocacy of organ donation and transplantation, and the need to have more honest conversations about death. Metcalfe delivered a TED-X talk in 2014.[7] Her views on these topics have garnered frequent and widespread national media attention.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Metcalfe, Carly-Jay (2024). Breath (in ISO 639-1). Australia: University of Queensland Press (published 27 February 2024). ISBN 9780702268359.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  2. ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  3. ^ "Breath – Carly-Jay Metcalfe | Cass Moriarty Author". Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  4. ^ Wright, Fiona (2024-03-09). "Breath". The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  5. ^ "Liz Sutherland reviews Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe". Mascara Literary Review. 2024-04-30. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  6. ^ Under, New Voices Down (2024-02-27). "February: Celebrating writing that leaves you breathless". New Voices Down Under. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  7. ^ Metcalfe, Carly-Jay (5 October 2014). "Learning to die". YouTube. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Carly-Jay on dying, living, and learning to breathe". ABC listen. 2024-04-18. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  9. ^ "The February 25 Edition". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2024-02-25. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ Drysdale, Caitlin (8 August 2015). "Dying to Know Day promotes death literacy". Courier-Mail. Retrieved 27 May 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "Five minutes with author Carly-Jay Metcalfe". HerCanberra. 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  14. ^ Brading, Laura (2024-03-16). ""How My Transplant Changed Me In Ways I Didn't Expect"". primer. Retrieved 2024-05-27.