Fiona Wright
{{short description|Australian poet and critic (born 1983)}}
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Fiona Wright (born 1983) is an Australian poet and critic.
Life and career
Fiona Wright grew up in Menai, New South Wales.{{Cite web|url=https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/auws/arounduws_home_page/auws_archives/2011/september_-_october_2011/knuckled_poetically_observes_life_in_western_sydney|title=‘Knuckled’ poetically observes life in Western Sydney|last=O'Leary|first= Melissa|publisher=University of Western Sydney |website=www.westernsydney.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2016-11-19}} Wright has completed residencies including an Island of Residencies placement at the Tasmanian Writers' Centre in 2007. She received an Emerging Writers' Grant by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 2010.
Wright's debut collection of poetry, Knuckled (2011) was awarded the Dame Mary Gilmore Award in 2012.[http://giramondopublishing.com/fiona-wright-shortlisted-for-dame-mary-gilmore-award/ "Fiona Wright wins the Dame Mary Gilmore Award", Giramondo Publishing]
Her book Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays in Hunger (2015) is a collection of ten essays that detail the author's own experience with anorexia. Small Acts of Disappearance won the 2016 Kibble Award,{{cite web|url=https://www.perpetual.com.au/kibble#2016kibblewinner|title=2016 Kibble Literary Awards for Women Writers Winners|website=www.perpetual.com.au|publisher=Perpetual Limited|accessdate=20 November 2016}} which recognises life writing by women writers, and the 2016 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.qldliteraryawards.org.au/winners|title=Queensland Literary Awards 2017|website=Queensland Literary Awards|accessdate=24 June 2017|archive-date=9 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009000109/http://www.qldliteraryawards.org.au/winners|url-status=dead}} It was also shortlisted for both the 2016 Stella Prize{{cite web|url=http://thestellaprize.com.au/2016/03/announcing-the-2016-stella-prize-shortlist/|title=Announcing the 2016 Stella Prize shortlist|website=thestellaprize.com.au|accessdate=20 November 2016}} and the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for non-fiction.{{cite web|url=http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/2016-douglas-stewart-prize-non-fiction|title=2016 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction|website=State Library of New South Wales|accessdate=24 June 2017}}
She completed a PhD at the Western Sydney University, Writing and Society Research Centre in 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/232420477|title=Staging the suburb : imagination, transformation and suburbia in Australian poetry - Version details|website=Trove|access-date=2016-11-20}}
Her poems featured in the Black Inc. annual anthology of Best Australian Poems in 2015 and 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bestaustralianwriting.com.au/poems/|title=Best Australian Poems 2015|website=Best Australian Writing|access-date=2016-11-19}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/best-australian-poems-2015|title=The Best Australian Poems 2015 by Geoff Page}} Wright is the 2017 Copyright Agency (CAL) New Writer in Residence at University of Technology Sydney.{{cite web|title=In Conversation with Fiona Wright|url=https://www.alumni.uts.edu.au/events/2017/in-conversation-with-fiona-wright|website=University of Technology Sydney|accessdate=24 June 2017}} Wright's essay, State Your Intentions, was shortlisted for the 2018 Horne Prize.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehorneprize.com.au/news|title=The Horne Prize - News|website=The Horne Prize|language=en-us|access-date=2018-12-04|archive-date=10 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310224929/https://www.thehorneprize.com.au/news|url-status=dead}}
Works
=Poetry=
- Knuckled Giramondo Publishing, 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-920882-75-4}}
- Domestic Interior Giramondo Publishing, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1-925336-56-6}}
Her poetry has also been published in the Age, the Australian’s Literary Review, Black Inc's Best Australian Poetry and in journals and anthologies in Australia, Asia and the USA.{{Cite web|url=http://giramondopublishing.com/product/knuckled/|title=Knuckled {{!}} Giramondo Publishing|website=giramondopublishing.com|access-date=2016-11-19}}
=Essay collections=
- Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays in Hunger Giramondo Publishing, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-922146-93-9}}
- The World Was Whole Giramondo Publishing, 2018. {{ISBN| 978-1-925336-97-9}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.fionawright.net Official website]
- {{Twitter|WritesFiona}}
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