Kristin Hannaford is a Queensland poet. Her new poetry collection Fragile Context (August 2007) is published by Brisbane based Post Pressed. Her first collection Inhale appears in Swelter (Interactive Press 2003) as part of IP’s Emerging Author Series.

In 2007 Kristin was a tutor for the Queensland Writers Centre, presenting ‘Bootcamp’ poetry workshops with Ross Clark in regional Queensland. She will be the Regional Liaison Officer (Rockhampton) for the QWC for 2008. Kristin’s poetry and short fiction appear most recently in Idiom 23, Thylazine, Otoliths, foam:e, 1001 nights cast, Papertiger 5/6, Famous Reporter, and Radio National’s Poetica.

Two poems from her Wetland Sonnets sequence won prestigious Australian poetry prizes – Grasslands won the 2004 Leichhardt New Media Poetry Prize, and Shoalwater received joint second for New Media in the 2004 Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her essay on this work appears in James Stuart’s The Material Poem.

Kristin read at the 2007 Brisbane Writers’ Festival, while in 2006 she was selected to attend the Varuna Longlines Poetry program for regional writers. Kristin has developed and presented creative writing workshops to audiences of all ages (click here for more information or to book a workshop). Kristin enjoys blurring boundaries between traditional forms of writing, exploring new media and performance. Click here for a complete bio.

Email: kristinhannaford@hotmail.com

‘Many of Hannaford’s poems look at the odd view,
and refuse to arrive there by the scenic route’

‘It takes a special kind of confidence to allow
your poem to walk unaided on such tight, bald lines.’

Patricia Prime, Stylus Poetry Journal Oct 2003