“I think she has done it. Bite Your Tongue is all softness and breath, achieved by careful management of voice; finding it, demanding it, censoring it and best of all, controlling it … the mother’s final weeks, is beautiful. The few inches separating Angel’s self-righteous, judgemental cheek from her daughter’s last kiss may as well be the abyss. It takes the entire book for Rendle-Short to close the distance that has grown between them. — Annette Hughes, Newtown Review of Books

… the weather, the heat, the profuse tropical growth, the conservatism, the political corruption, the small mindedness, the strength of religiosity … an engaging, unsettling and at times darkly funny account of her childhood — Bronwyn Lacken, Reviews in Australian Studies

The transferences of female imagery to the landscape [in Imago] (a tremendously difficult device to use newly) are among the best I've read. The fluctuations and magnitudes of individual interpersonal electricity are also conveyed with great respect and art. — Jennifer Maiden, Overland

The anthology [The Near and the Far] attests to the important work that can result from writers immersing themselves in a place so unlike their home, where fresh collaborations are forged and new ways of thinking divulged. — Sonia Nair, Books+Publishing