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Kerri Shying Kerri Shying i(10285338 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Chinese ; Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wiradjuri
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BiographyHistory

Poet of Chinese and Wiradjuri family. In 2018, she was based in Newcastle where she facilitated a group of writers with disability. (Shying is, to quote her biography in Verity La, 'disabled by a degenerative disease'.)

Source: Verity La.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2019 recipient Varuna Fellowships — Eric Dark Fellowship for the manuscript 'Know Your Country'.
2017-2018 shortlisted The Noel Rowe Poetry Award for Know Your Country
2017 shortlisted Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest For 'Know Your Country'.
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