Judith Beveridge

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

Life
Judith Beveridge was born in London, England, arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration. She currently teaches creative writing at Newcastle and Sydney universities 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

Poetry

 * The Domesticity of Giraffes, (Black Lightning, 1987) ISBN 0949561088
 * Accidental Grace, (UQP, 1996) ISBN 0702228729
 * How to Love Bats, and Other Poems (Picaro Press, 2001)OCLC: 57312733
 * Wolf Notes, (Giramondo, 2003)  ISBN 1-920882-00-6
 * Storm and Honey, (Giramondo, 2009)

Criticism

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

Edited

 * A parachute of blue : first choice of Australian poets. Number one, with Jill Jones & Louise Katherine Wakeling (Round Table Publications, 1995) ISBN 0646220039
 * The Best Australian Poetry 2006, with Martin Duwell & Bronwyn Lea (UQP, 2006) ISBN 0702235687