Sarah Holland-Batt is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literary Studies. She holds an Honours degree (Class I) in Literary Studies and an MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland, and researches in the area of contemporary Australian and American poetics.
Her first book, Aria (University of Queensland Press), was the recipient of the 2007 Thomas Shapcott Prize for Poetry, the Dorothy Hewett Fellowship for Poetry, and the FAW Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted in the 2009 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and the 2009 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards for Poetry.
She is also the recipient of an Asialink Literature residency at Aichi Shukutoku University in Japan and an Australia Council Literature Residency at the B.R. Whiting Studio in Rome.
Her poems have been widely published in Australian and international literary journals and newspapers, and she has also worked as a poetry critic for the Sydney Morning Herald.
This information has been contributed by Ms Sarah Holland-Batt.
