Lizz Murphy writes between Binalong NSW and Canberra ACT, a habit which began while commuting by bus (aeons ago). Now she commutes part-time by car still keeping her eye out for poems. She writes in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry often incorporating found text.

Lizz has published over a dozen books. Her eight poetry titles include: Shebird and Six Hundred Dollars (PressPress), Walk the Wildly (Picaro/Ginninderra), Stop Your Cryin (Island Press), Two Lips Went Shopping (Spinifex Press). Spinifex Press also published her best known anthology Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective. She is published in numerous anthologies and journals in Australia and overseas.

Lizz is a former Canberra Times Poetry Editor, has worked in regional arts development, arts and publishing, was once a regional newspaper editor and when she was very young, a shop assistant.

She blogs at A Poet’s Slant lizzmurphypoet.blogspot.com

Awards

2015 Aesthetica Creative Poetry Competition (UK) – Finalist

2014 Aesthetica Creative Poetry Competition (UK) – Finalist

2013 Blake Poetry Prize – Highly Commended

2011 Rosemary Dobson Poetry Prize (joint)

2008 Max Harris Poetry Prize — APPC Committee Selection

2006 CAPO (Canberra Arts Patrons Organization)-Singapore Airlines Travel Award (Calcutta)

2005 artsACT Travel Grant (Calcutta)

1998 ACT Creative Arts Fellowship (Literature)

1994 Anutech Poetry Prize

Book Awards