Kate Lilley (born 1960) is a contemporary

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and

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Early life

Kate Lilley was born in

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, Western Australia in 1960 and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley, and sister of Rozanna Lilley, Joe Flood, Michael Flood and Tom Flood. After studying at the

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, she completed a PhD at

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on masculine elegy, and from 1986 to 1989 was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at St Hilda's College Oxford University working on Seventeenth Century Women's Writing.

Career

Lilley is a scholar of queer, feminist textual theory and history, from 17th century women’s writing to contemporary poetry and poetics. She edited ''

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'' by

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(Penguin Classics, 1994). She published ''Versary'', her first volume of poems, in 2002, L''adylike'' in 2012, and ''Tilt'' in 2018. In 2010 she edited ''Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett'' for UWA Press. Lilley had a "featured cameo" as Vera Newby in the film

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. She has been an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Sydney, where she directed the Creative Writing program from 2013 to 2021. She is now a 'poet-scholar at large' and the poetry editor of ''Southerly'' magazine.

Awards and recognition

*Winner 2002 Grace Leven Prize for ''Versary'' *Winner 2019 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry for ''Tilt''

Works

Poetry *''Versary''. (Salt, 2002) *''Round Vienna''. (Vagabond Press, 2011) *''Ladylike''. (UWA Publishing, 2012) *''Tilt''. (Vagabond, 2018) Edited *Margaret Cavendish ''The Blazing World and Other Writings''. (Penguin, 1994) *Dorothy Hewett ''Selected Poems''. (UWA Press, 2010)

References

External links

Kate Lilley Contents page
Poems & essays at Australian Literature Resources

at Snorkel Magazine 1960 births Living people Australian poets Academic staff of the University of Sydney Alumni of the University of London Australian women poets {{Australia-poet-stub