Irma’s short fiction has been widely published in literary journals, including Meanjin, Island, Westerly, Review of Australian Fiction, Going Down Swinging, The Big Issue, The Canberra Times, Mascara Literary Review, Tincture, Verity La, Grapple Annual, Idiom 23, Four W, and many others. Most of these stories are not available online but a few are linked below.

Irma’s work has also been widely anthologised. Recent publications include the tenth anniversary edition of Award Winning Australian Writing 2017, Australian Love Stories (edited by Cate Kennedy), alongside Tony Birch, Carmel Bird, Jon Bauer, and Lisa Jacobson, and Escape (edited by Bronwyn Meehan), alongside Alec Patric, Jennifer Mills, Andy Kissane, SJ Finn.

Her debut short fiction collection, Two Steps Forward, was selected from 450 submissions to be published as the final of six books in Affirm Press’ Long Story Shorts series. It was described by The Age as ‘a beautifully crafted volume’ and the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘a collection of bittersweet, beautifully written short stories’, and Irma was hailed by The Australian as ‘a welcome new voice’. Details of awards, reviews and interviews with Irma about Two Steps Forward can be found here.

Listen to Irma on Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily, discussing short fiction and her story in Australian Love Stories, with Michael Cathcart, Cate Kennedy and Lisa Jacobson. Due to technical difficulties, Irma enters the conversation at 4:05.

Irma reads an extract from her short story, ‘Tangerine’ (included in Two Steps Forward) as part of Varuna Writers’ Centre’s Writer-a-Day program.