Nicolette Stasko

Nicolette Stasko (born 1950) is a contemporary Australian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer of United States origin.

Nicolette Stasko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania to Polish and Hungarian parents. She completed a BA with honours in English at Pennsylvania State University and an MA in education at Lehigh University then taught in special education. Marrying an Australian in 1978 she travelled in Europe and Asia settling in Perth, Western Australia where she taught at Perth Modern School. She separated from her husband, meeting the writer David Brooks with whom she has a daughter. In 1986 they moved to Brisbane where she taught and edited The Phoenix Review. During this period she began writing in earnest and had her first poetry published in Australia in the journal Hecate.

Stasko's first collection of poems, Abundance (1992), won the 1993 Anne Elder Award and she has since published several collections to widespread critical acclaim. She has also published a non-fiction book entitled Oyster: From Montparnasse to Greenwell Point (2000) and most recently the novel The Invention of Everyday Life (2007).

Poetry

 * Abundance. (Angus & Robertson, 1992) ISBN 020717671X
 * Black Night with Windows. (Angus & Robertson, 1994) ISBN 0207186596
 * Dwelling in the Shape of Things. (1999)
 * In Certain Light. (2001)
 * The Weight of Irises. (Black Pepper, 2003) ISBN 187604439X Excerpt
 * Glass Cathedrals: New and Selected Poems. (Salt, 2006) ISBN 9781844712762 Excerpt

Novels

 * The Invention of Everyday Life. (Black Pepper, 2007) ISBN 9781876044565 Excerpt

Non-fiction

 * Oyster: From Montparnasse to Greenwell Point. (HarperCollins, 2000) ISBN 0732268028 ISBN 0732270901 (paperback)