Bundanon

Ron Pretty is an Australian poet, publisher and teacher. He has taught writing in the University of Wollongong and Melbourne University as well as in schools, colleges and a broad variety of community organisations.

While in residence, Pretty worked to finish projects which he has been working on: a novel entiteled Adam’s Lookdown and also do a rewrite on a filmscript of the same name. Pretty also worked to begin a second novel during his residency, based on the life and death of Frank Arkell, one-time MP and Mayor of Wollongong.