Autor/-in: Sarah Holland-Batt

Sarah Holland-Batt. is an award-winning Australian poet, editor and critic. Born in Queensland in 1982, she grew up in Australia and the United States, and has also lived in Italy and Japan. She has an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where she was the W. G. Walker Memorial Fulbright Scholar from 2010-2011. She has received many honours and fellowships including from Yaddo and MacDowell. She is Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Her first book, Aria. , received several literary prizes, including the Anne Elder Award, the Arts ACT Judith Wright Prize and the Thomas Shapcott Prize. Her second book, The Hazards. , won the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. Her third book, The Jaguar. , won the 2023 Stella Prize, the Queensland Premier's Award for State Significance and the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, and was named The Australian. newspaper's 2022 Book of the Year. The Jaguar. was also longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the ALS Gold Medal, and shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize.