Rosanna E. Licari

(she/her)

Rosanna E. Licari’s poetry collection, An Absence of Saints (UQP), won the Thomas Shapcott MS Prize, the Anne Elder Poetry Award, the Wesley Michel Wright Award and was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award. The Wait won the inaugural 2015 Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Prize  and Drifters won the inaugural 2021 AAALS Poetry Prize. Her work is in Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (MUP, 2020), Scars: an anthology of microlit (Spineless Wonders 2020) and Pulped Fiction: an anthology of microlit (Spineless Wonders, 2021). She teaches English to refugees and is the poetry editor of StylusLit.

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What We Carry: Poetry on childbearing

Celebrating 20 years of the Thomas Shapcott Prize