Fiona Wright (53 works by)
Gender: Female

BiographyHistory

Fiona Wright has worked as a Project assistant with the Red Room Company, which aims to create, promote and distribute poetry by new and emerging Australian writers to the public in unusual ways. She was awarded an Island of Residencies placement at the Tasmania Writers' Centre in 2007, and an Emerging Writers' Grant by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 2010. She has been Assistant Editor of the literary journal HEAT and in 2011 was Publications Officer in the Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney.

Awards

Awards for Works

Knuckled , 2011 poetry selected work The poems in Knuckled range from the flooded towns of the Snowy Mountains to the burnt-out landscape of Victoria to the holiday beaches of coastal NSW. A sequence set in Sri Lanka compares the poet's and her grandfather's different experiences of Asia - other poems pursue this experience in Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. But it is the suburbs of Western Sydney, where the poet grew up and now works, that is her particular territory, with its mixture of voices and perspectives rendered all the more intensely for the compression and understatement with which they are presented. Knuckled is Wright's first collection of poetry. [From the publisher]
2011 commended FAW Anne Elder Poetry Award
2010-2011 shortlisted ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) : Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
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