Judith Beveridge
Poetry Editor,
Meanjin
Judith Beveridge is poetry editor for Meanjin, teaches creative writing at Newcastle and Sydney Universities and is a former editor of Hobo and the Australian Arabic literature journal, Kalimat.
Born in London, Judith arrived in Australia with her parents in 1960. After completing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Technology Sydney she worked in libraries, as a teacher, a researcher and in environmental regeneration.
Poems from her first volume, The Domesticity of Giraffes (1987), were selected as part of the HSC curriculum. In 1995, she edited with Jill Jones and Louise Wakeling, A Parachute of Blue, an anthology of Australian poetry. Her fourth volume of poetry, Storm and Honey, will be published in 2009.
Her work has been recognised by numerous awards. These include the 2005 Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival, the 2004 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award (for Wolf Notes), the 2003 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize and the Wesley Michel Wright Award.
The Domesticity of Giraffes received the Mary Gilmore Prize, the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards' Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, C J Dennis Prize for Poetry. Her second volume, Accidental Grace, (1996) won the Wesley Michel Wright Award.
