Felicity Plunkett
Australian academic

Felicity Plunkett

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Introduction

Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet and critic. She is Poetry Editor at the University of Queensland Press.

Career

Felicity Plunkett has a BA (Honours) and PhD from the University of Sydney. She has worked as an academic at several universities, and is a widely published writer of poetry, reviews, articles and short stories.

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Awards

  • Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2008, winner for Vanishing Point
  • Judith Wright Prize, 2010, commended for Vanishing Point
  • Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (Poetry), shortlisted for Vanishing Point
  • Anne Elder Award, commended for Vanishing Point
  • Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, 2010, commended for "Ruined Girls"
  • Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, 2007, for Articulate; Stitching the Night; Learning the Bones
  • Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, 2006 for October's Road and Inside Your Wardrobe
  • ABC Radio National 2003 Short Story Competition for "Sleeping Like a Baby"