Karen Knight
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Biography
Karen Knight continues to dazzle audiences with her original and quirky poems, which she performs at festivals, in pubs, on the buses, and on radio. Her poetry has been widely published in Australian and international anthologies, newspapers and literary journals, including Blue Dog, Island and Best Australian Poems 2005 edited by Les Murray.
Under the one granite roof: poems for Walt Whitman is her third collection. Previous titles are the chapbooks Singing in the Grain (Walleah Press, 2001), My Mother has Become (Picaro Press, 2003) and Doctor Says (Picaro Press, 2006). With Sue Moss, she is co-editor of Interior Despots: Running the Border, an anthology of women poets (Pardalote Press, 2001).
Knight's awards include three writer's development grants from Arts Tasmania, and the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship Award for Poetry, which entitled her to a month's residency with editorial support at Varuna - The Writers' House in Katoomba, and a three week residency in Scotland through the UNESCO City of Literature Exchange Program and the Eleanor Dark Foundation.
Karen Knight is the 2006 winner of the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship, awarded annually to a highly original poet by the Varuna Writer's Centre and the Eleanor Dark Foundation. As part of her prize Karen will travel to Scotland in April to take up a three-week residency: two weeks in Edinburgh and then a week in the Hebrides with the UNESCO City of Literary Exchange Program.