Diane Fahey

Diane Fahey was born in Melbourne, Australia. A poet, her work features both distinctively Australian and European, settings and preoccupations. Dominant concerns are Greek myth, fairy tales, visual art and landscape, and increasingly, ecological themes. Her interest in mystery stories and in blending genres informs her recently completed The Mystery of Rosa Morland, the first of a trilogy of novels. Her collections of poetry are: Voices from the Honeycomb (1986), Metamorphoses (1988), Turning the Hourglass (1990), Mayflies in Amber (1993), The Body in Time (1995), Listening to a Far Sea (1998), and The Sixth Swan (2001). Diane has won various awards including the Mattara Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. In 2001, one of her poems was shortlisted for the Davoren Hanna Poetry Prize in Ireland.

She has been the recipient of writing grants from the Australia Council and from state arts bodies in Victoria and South Australia. In 1993, Diane was a fellow at Hawthornden International Writers' Centre, and has been writer in residence at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, and at the University of Adelaide. In 1999, she was awarded a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan, Ireland.