AustLit

'Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a Western Australian based non-binary poet who is a guest on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land. His work appears in Contemporary Australian Poetry, The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, Solid Air, Stories of Perth and Going Postal. Their first full length collection Clean was published in 2022. A seasoned performance poet, Mitchell has toured Australia with works that have fused language and minimal baroque to the 2015 one-person showcased THE 24 HOUR PERFORMANCE POEM. They have won Coal Creek’s Literary Award for Poetry, Melbourne Poets Union’s Martin Downey Urban Realist Poetry Award and the Wollongong Short Story Prize. This year has also seen Scott-Patrick receive the Westerly Mid-Career Fellowship so they can begin work on their second collection plus they have received the 2022 Red Room Poetry Fellowship to work on a project called Antipodean Sea Garden: Knowing Perth Canyon. Scott-Patrick lives with two black cats, Beowulf and Bones.' (Introduction)