Barry Hill
Barry Hill is an acclaimed writer in several genres, having won Premier's Awards for poetry, the essay and non-fiction, most recently Broken Song (2002) which also won the National Biography Award and the Tasmania Pacific Bicentenary History Prize. His short fiction has been widely anthologised, and translated into Japanese and Chinese. This is his sixth collection of poetry. His first collection, Raft (1990) was runner up for the Anne Elder Award, and his second, the long narrative poem Ghosting William Buckley won the 1994 Premier's Award. For fifteen years he was Radio Critic for The Age, and he has written many works for radio, most recently Desert Canticles in 2000, (with music composed by Elena Kats-Chernin), which was based on his third book of poetry The Inland Sea (2001). His first libretto, Love Stronger than Death, music by Andrew Schultz, was performed by The Song Company at 'The Studio' at the Sydney Opera House in 2004. Since 2003 his work has appeared in Black Inc's annual Best Australian Poems. He is Poetry Editor for the national newspaper, The Australian. He lives by the sea in Queenscliff, Victoria, and is married to the singer/songwriter Rose Bygrave.