Bel Schenk

{{short description|Australian poet resident in Melbourne (born 1975)}}

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Bel Schenk (born 1975) is an Australian poet and author resident in Melbourne. She has performed her work widely in venues around Australia.{{Cite web |title=Bel Schenk |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A58178 |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}

Schenk was born in Adelaide, South Australia.

She is the author of The Most Famous Boy In Town (2024),{{Cite web |title=The Most Famous Boy in Town |url=https://shortaustralianstories.com.au/product/the-most-famous-boy-in-town/ |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=short Australian stories - everywhere |language=en-US}} Every Time You Close Your Eyes (2014),[http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1195 Every Time You Close Your Eyes] (Wakefield Press, 2014. Ambulances & Dreamers (2008)[http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=21&cat=0&page=1 Ambulances & Dreamers] (Wakefield Press, 2008. and Urban Squeeze.[http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/783605?c=people Bel Schenk] on Trove.

From 2008 to 2011 Schenk was employed as the artistic director of Express Media in Melbourne,{{cite web|url=http://expressmedia.org.au/express_media/about/people/alumni-friends/ |title=Alumni & friends « Writers, Young Writer, Writing Courses, Creative Writing |accessdate=2011-11-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407024824/http://expressmedia.org.au/express_media/about/people/alumni-friends/ |archivedate=2012-04-07 }} and worked for many years prior to that at the SA Writers' Centre.{{cn|date=February 2021}}