Kristin Hannaford is a Queensland writer and the author of two collections of poetry, Fragile Context (Post Pressed, 2007) and 'Inhale' in Swelter (Interactive Press, 2003).

Her poems, short stories and reviews have been published in many Australian print and online journals including Idiom 23, Small Packages, Another Lost Shark, Otoliths, foam:e, Island, - they have also featured on Brisbane's City Cats. Kristin's poems have been broadcast on Poetica Radio National, ABC Rockhampton, 2MBSFM Brisbane, Radio NAG 91.3FM. Her short play 'The Beckoning Cat' was produced for both the 2010 Sydney and Rockhampton Short & Sweet festivals.

Kristin enjoys blurring boundaries between traditional forms of writing, exploring new media and performance - her recent sound montage Drowning featured on 'Writers' Radio' Radio Adelaide and was developed in response to the 2011 Rockhampton flood event. 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 performs her work regularly and in early 2012 she will be reading at the 2012 Riverbend Poetry Series. Kristin has also been a featured guest at the Queensland Poetry Festival (2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008), the Brisbane Writers' Festival and in 2009 she was one of three Queensland poets selected to tour Sydney, Melbourne and Launceston for the Queensland Writers' Centre Poetry Tour.

Kristin develops and presents creative writing workshops to audiences of all ages (click here for more information or to book a workshop). Kristin works as a secondary school English teacher and lives in Yeppoon, Central Queensland with her husband and two sons.


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