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Biography

Lizz Murphy was born in Ireland in 1950 and emigrated to Australia in 1969 with her husband, Bill. She left school on her fifteenth birthday to work in various shops and has never looked back – she’s too afraid to! From retail, Lizz advanced to writing about sheep dips and bridal bouquets for a country newspaper before working as a publicist in the arts and publishing industries. 

She is interested in regional, community and workplace art and in using the arts to get young people excited about language. While she values the skills she learned on the shop floor and the family atmosphere of her first job, she’s the first to encourage kids to try and stay at school and get some qualifications.

 

Lizz has published four anthologies of women’s writing and two collections of poetry. She has worked as the writer on House at Work, a book project with Parliament House, Canberra. And she is currently the Poetry Officer for the state of New South Wales. In recent years she has travelled widely including to the Kolkota Book Fair in India.

Lizz and Bill enjoy the solitude of the New South Wales village of Binalong. They have two children, Aroona and Brendan and two grandchildren, Michaela and Georgia.

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Website: http://lizzmurphypoet.blogspot.com/ • http://sites.google.com/site/lizzmurphypoet/

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Awards
1994 Anutech Poetry Prize, winner

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Book Awards
Two Lips Went Shopping: 1998 ACT Creative Arts Fellowship for development

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Books published by, or available from, Spinifex

	Two Lips Went Shopping
	Wee Girls