Liz Winfield
Australian poet
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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]
Awards
In 2010, she won the Norma and Colin Knight Poetry Award.[1]