Judy Johnson
Judy Johnson has published more than 300 poems in literary magazines across Australia and the UK. Many of them have won major awards, including but not limited to the John Shaw Neilson Prize, the Val Vallis Award, the Tom Collins Poetry Prize (twice), the Banjo Paterson Poetry Prize (three years running), the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, and the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize. She co-judged the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2004 and 2005. Her first collection, Wing Corrections, was on the Schools List in WA; her second, Nomadic, won the Wesley Michel Wright Award. Her verse novel Jack, published by Pandanus Books, won the 2007 Victorian Premier's CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry. Judy lives in the Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales and is currently working on a second verse novel to execute her third Australia Council grant.