Vanessa Kirkpatrick

Prize-Winning Poet & Educator

Vanessa Kirkpatrick's first collection of poetry, To Catch the Light, won the inaugural John Knight Memorial Poetry Manuscript Prize and was Commended for the 2013 Anne Elder Award. Her second collection, The Conversation of Trees, was published in 2017. Vanessa has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Sydney and her poetry has been broadcast on national radio. She has facilitated poetry workshops and masterclasses for Varuna The National Writers' House and Writing NSW.

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