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Judith Beveridge. Photo courtesy University of Queensland Press

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Judith Beveridge (b.1956) was born in London, England, and migrated to Australia in 1960. She grew up and went to school in the western suburbs of Sydney, later attending the University of Technology. Having decided when she left school to dedicate herself to writing poetry, she took only part-time jobs in order to allow herself time to write. Her first book The Domesticity of Giraffes (Black Lighting Press 1987) won the Dame Mary Gilmore Award, the NSW Premier’s Award and the Victorian Premier’s Award in 1988. Judith has taught poetry writing at the University of Technology, Sydney, as well as at adult colleges. She co-edited the poetry anthology A Parachute of Blue (UQP 1995).

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