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Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived in the United States and Britain. Her poems have won a number of awards, including the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011), an Academy of American Poets University prize (2004), and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship (2002).

She is the author of three collections: Event (Salt Publishing, 2007), which won the FAW Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the CJ Dennis Prize, the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, and the ASAL Mary Gilmore Prize; Interval (UQP, 2018), which won the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and was a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Literature – Best Writing Award; and Circadia (UQP, 2024). She is also the author of three poetry chapbooks: Alice Missing in Wonderland and Other Poems (Picaro Press, 2008), Aftermarks (Vagabond Press, 2012) and Here Hear (Gazebo Books, 2022).

Her translations from French (Philippe Jaccottet, Gérard Macé) have been published in Australian and international journals.

She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Melbourne, an MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MPhil in European Literature from the University of Cambridge. 

In recent times, she has worked with a number of composers as a lyricist, including Mastaneh Nazarian (‘Aubade’), Andrew Ford (‘Isolation Hymn’) and Jane Stanley (’14 Weeks’, ‘The Indifferent’).

In 2024, she was announced as La Trobe University's Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellow, supporting her work in AI and inclusivity among linguistically diverse populations.