music.wikisort.org - Poet

Liz Winfield (born 1964) is a contemporary Australian poet and editor.

Biography

Liz Winfield was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1964 and attended Mount Carmel College.[1] In 1999 she instigated the Republic Readings in Hobart and has coordinated them ever since. She is a poetry editor for Famous Reporter and the young persons' liaison officer for the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Tasmanian branch.[2]

Winfield's collection Too Much Happens appeared from Cornford Press in 2003.[3] Her second collection, Catalogue of Love – a chapbook from Walleah Press[4] – was launched at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival in Launceston in October 2006.[5]

In 2010 she won the Norma and Colin Knight Poetry Award.[1]

Bibliography

• Too Much Happens (Cornford Press, 2003)[6][7]
• Catalogue of Love (Walleah Press, 2006)[8]

References

---