SARAH DAY was born in England and grew up in Tasmania. The Ship (Brandl & Schlesinger 2004) is her most recent collection of poems. It won the Judith Wright Calanthe Queensland Premier’s Award and the Judith Wright ACT Award for poetry 2005 and the University of Melbourne Wesley Michelle Wright Prize 2004. In 2002 her New and Selected Poems was published in the UK. It was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Awards. Before that, Quickening was published in1997. Her other books include A Hunger to be Less Serious which won the Anne Elder Award for a first volume of poetry in 1987 and A Madder Dance which was shortlisted for the NBC Banjo Awards. She has received grants from the Literature Fund of the Australia Council and Arts Tasmania and was resident at the BR Whiting Library in Rome. She was invited to the Festival de Poesie in Paris in 2001 and in 2006 and has been a guest at Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Byron Bay and Hobart writers festivals and at King’s Lynn in England. Her poems have been put to music by British composer Anthony Gilbert. She was poetry editor of Island Magazine for seven years. She lives in Hobart. She has taught English and Creative Writing for a number of years at university and pre-tertiary level. She has been a member of the Literature Fund of the Australia Council.
Sarah Day’s new poetry collection will be published by Brandl & Schlesinger in late 2009.