Sarah Holland-Batt

Sarah Holland-Batt (born 1982) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.

Biography

Born in Southport, Queensland, Sarah Holland-Batt grew up in Australia and Denver, Colorado.^[1] She was educated at the University of Queensland, where she received First Class Honours in Literary Studies and an MPhil in English, and at New York University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar^[2] and attained an M.F.A.

Holland-Batt is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell colonies, a Hawthornden Castle residency, and an Australia Council for the Arts Literature Residency at the B.R. Whiting Studio in Rome. Her poems have appeared in numerous international newspapers, periodicals and magazines, including The New Yorker and Poetry, among others, and have been widely anthologised.

She has served as a judge of the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award, and in 2015, she is a judge of the Australian Book Review's Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize.^[3]

She is a member of the Creative Writing faculty at the Queensland University of Technology^[4] and the poetry editor of Island Magazine.^[5]

Published works

Books

• The Hazards (University of Queensland Press, 2015). ISBN 978-0-7022-5359-1
• Aria (University of Queensland Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-7022-3675-4

Anthologies

• The Best Australian Poems. (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
• The Best Australian Stories. (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2011, 2012)
• The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry. Ed. John Kinsella (Louisiana: Desperation Press/Turnrow Books, 2014).
• Being Human. Ed. Neil Astley. (U.K.: Bloodaxe Books, 2011)
• The Best Australian Poetry. Ed. David Brooks. (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2008)
• The Puncher and Wattman Anthology of Australian Poetry. Ed. John Leonard. (Sydney: Puncher & Wattman, 2010)
• Thirty Australian Poets. Ed. Felicity Plunkett. (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2011)
• Young Poets: An Australian Anthology. Ed. John Leonard. (Melbourne: John Leonard Press, 2011)

Awards

• Mary Gilmore Prize, 2010, shortlisted for Aria ^[6]
• Judith Wright Prize, 2009, winner for Aria^[7]
• The Age Book of the Year Poetry Prize, 2009, commended for Aria^[8]
• Anne Elder Award, 2008, winner for Aria
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2008, shortlisted for Aria
• Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Poetry, 2008, shortlisted for Aria^[9]
• Dorothy Hewett Fellowship for Poetry, 2007, winner for Aria
• Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2007, winner for Aria^[10]

References

1. New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards 2008
2. QUT Staff Profile: Sarah Holland-Batt http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/hollansj/
3. Australian Poetry Elizabeth Jolley Prize
4. QUT Creative Industries News
5. Wheeler Centre Working With Words
6. The Australian
7. ACT Book and Poetry Prize Winners 2009
8. Spoiled for Choice: The Age Book of the Year Shortlist, (Books, Entertainment), Sydney Morning Herald 8 August 2009
9. Queensland Premier's Award Shortlist
10. Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize

External links

• Author's website
• Poem at The New Yorker
• Two poems at Poetry Foundation
• Biography and list of works at Austlit: The Australian Literature Resource
• Extract of Aria at New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
• University of Queensland Press