About the Author

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Lucy Dougan was born and grew up in Perth, Western Australia, where she has now resettled after living for some time in Newcastle, New South Wales. Her first book, Memory Shell (Five Islands Press, 1998) won the Mary Gilmore Award in 2000. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, both in Australia and overseas. She has worked in arts administration, as a tertiary teacher of creative writing, literature and film; and has run workshops for teachers exploring ways of engaging young people in poetry. Lucy has had poems commissioned for the Southern Forest Sculpture Walk at Northcliffe and for the redevelopment of the Busselton Jetty in WA. In both these projects she collaborated with the sculptors Nicole and Alex Mickle. She is a former poetry editor of HEAT magazine. Her latest book, White Clay, was published by Giramondo in 2008. In 2006 the manuscript of White Clay won the Arts ACT Alec Bolton Award for an unpublished manuscript by an Australian poet. She currently works in an administration and research position at the University of Western Australia and is poetry editor of the University of Canberra's online journal Axon: Creative Explorations.