Liz Winfield (born 1964) is a contemporary Australian poet and editor.
Biography
Liz Winfield was born in
Hobart
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, in 1964 and attended
Mount Carmel College.
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.
Winfield's collection ''Too Much Happens'' appeared from Cornford Press in 2003. Her second collection, ''Catalogue of Love'' – a chapbook from Walleah Press – was launched at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival in Launceston in October 2006.
In 2010 she won the Norma and Colin Knight Poetry Award.
Bibliography
*''Too Much Happens'' (Cornford Press, 2003)
*''Catalogue of Love'' (Walleah Press, 2006)
References
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1964 births
20th-century Australian poets
Writers from Hobart
Living people