Lisa Gorton
Author
University of Melbourne Alumnus
BA (Hons) 1995
Lisa Gorton is the author of the children's novel, Cloudland. Her poems, essays and reviews appeared in anthologies, newspapers and journals in the US, UK and Australia. Lisa was the winner of this year's Victorian Premier's Literary award for poetry and the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize.
Writing in a contemporary baroque style, her poems combine farfetched imagery and emotion. Within her collection, Press Release, is a sequence set in the Mallee district of Victoria that explores the history of settlement through elegy and dramatic monologue.
Lisa grew up in Melbourne and studied literature at the University of Melbourne. The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize win enabled her to spend six months in Ireland, after which she completed a Masters in Renaissance Literature and a Doctorate on John Donne's poetry and prose in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Lisa has worked as a lecturer and tutor at Rhodes University, South Africa, and as the Junior Dean of an Oxford College. She has published academic essays in English and American journals and her essay, Space in Donne, won the 2001 John Donne Society Award for Best Essays in Donne Studies.
