Sarah Rice

Sarah Rice is a Canberra poet and visual artist interested in the intersection between word and image. Her poetry collection Fingertip of the Tongue (UWAP) won the Eyelands International Book Award, and her cross-disciplinary poetry, visual art, and choral composition book Text/ure won a Canberra Critics Circle Award, and was Highly Commended in the ACT Writers Notable Book Awards. Sarah won the inaugural Ron Pretty Poetry Award, the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize, and co-won the International Writing Ventures, and Gwen Harwood Poetry Prizes. Sarah was shortlisted in the Montreal, Tom Howard, Drake-Brockman, CJ Dennis, New Millennium, Fish, Axel Clark, Michael Thwaites, and Overland poetry awards, amongst others. Publications include the Global Poetry Anthology, Award Winning Australian Writing, Best Australian Poetry, Island, Overland, Southerly, Aesthetica, The New Guard, ABR, and Australian Poetry Journal.