A. Frances Johnson is a prize-winning poet, author and artist and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne where she teaches Poetry and Poetics, and Contemporary Eco-fictions. Rendition for Harp & Kalashnikov is her third book of poetry (Puncher and Wattman 2017).
The Wind-up Birdman of Moorabool Street (Puncher and Wattmann) won the 2012 Michel Wesley Wright Prize. In 2015, she won the Griffith University-Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize and, in 2017, received an Australia Council residency (B. R. Whiting Studio) in Rome. A postcolonial novel, Eugene’s Falls (Arcadia 2007), retraces the Victorian journeys of colonial painter Eugene von Guerard and two associated solo exhibitions interrogate the construction of knowledge discourse around colonial landscape, agriculture and botany (Geelong Gallery 2010, 2015).
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First Dog, Last Dog: New Intertextual Short Fictions about Canis lupus familiaris
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Josephine Ulrick - Griffith University Poetry Prize
Australia Council for The Arts Fellowship to Rome, B. S. Whiting Award 2017
Credentials
Positions
Lecturer In Creative Writing
Culture And Communication
Judge
Michel Wesley Wright Prize for Poetry
Associate Editor, Judge Of Annual Poetry Manuscript Prize
Whitmore Press
Chair And Co-Judge
UoM Penguin Manuscript Prize
Editorial Advisory Board
Strange Literary Journal
Member
Melbourne University Theatre Board
Editorial Advisory Board
Meanjin Literary Journal
Founding Member And Associate
Here Theatre Company
Education
Creative Writing
University of Melbourne
Master of Arts (Creative Writing)
University of Melbourne
Master of Fine Arts
Victorian College of the Arts
Bachelor of Arts Painting
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts (honours)
University of Melbourne