Libby Hart is an award-winning Australian poet and finalist of major literary prizes, including the Anne Elder Award (Australia) and the Manchester Poetry Prize (United Kingdom). She was born on Boonwurrung Country in Naarm/Melbourne in 1971 and spent her formative years on Wurundjeri-Balluk and Yaluk-ut Weelam lands, and Whadjuk boodjar.

Libby’s poetry collections include Burn (2022), shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize (New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards); Wild (2014), shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize (New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards) and named one of the books of the year for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Book Review; This Floating World (2011), shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry (Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards), Dinny O’Hearn Poetry Prize (The Age Book of the Year Awards) and longlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards; and Fresh News from the Arctic (2006), winner of the Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Prize (both book prizes are for best first collection of poetry).

She is also the editor of My Name Suspended in the Air: Leland Bardwell at 100 (2022), a centenary collection of poems celebrating the Irish writer Leland Bardwell. My Name Suspended in the Air: Leland Bardwell at 100 was named one of the books of the year by The Irish Times.

Libby has published extensively, and her work has been adapted for the stage, composed as musical scores and soundscapes, and broadcast on radio and podcasts. She is also the recipient of several residencies and fellowships, including an Australia Council for the Arts international residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig (Ireland), The Cill Rialaig Project (Ireland), Varuna—The Writers’ House (Australia), and a DJ O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship at The Australian Centre (University of Melbourne).

Libby lives as a guest on Wadawurrung land (Australia). She also calls Machaire Eabha/Maugherow Peninsula (Ireland) home.

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