Judith Beveridge
Contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic

Judith Beveridge

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Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic.

Biography

Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. She started her education at the Auburn North Public School in September 1961, and graduated in 1968 as "Dux of the School" (a title awarded to the student with best aggregate result over all subjects). Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration. She currently teaches creative writing at The University of Sydney and is poetry editor for Meanjin, having previously edited Hobo and the Australian Arabic literature journal Kalimat.

Awards and nominations

  • Wesley Michel Wright Award
  • 1988 - Mary Gilmore Prize for The Domesticity of Giraffes
  • 1988 - New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for The Domesticity of Giraffes
  • 1988 - Victorian Premier's Literary Award, C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for The Domesticity of Giraffes
  • 2003 - The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize
  • 2004 - Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Poetry Collection - Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Wolf Notes
  • 2005 - winner of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival
  • 2013 - Christopher Brennan Award

Articles

  • Beveridge, Judith. (2001). Four Ascetics, The Literary Review, 45, no. 1, (2001): 152