Christine Paice

Christine Paice is a poet, and writer. Her poetry has featured four times in Best Australian Poems series by Black Inc. A runner up in the Newcastle Poetry Prize, she won (yes won!) the prestigious national Josephine Ulrick Award for poetry in 2009 with The Ministry Of Going In. She was Poetry editor and political writer for Old Trout, An American Review, for one glorious year. Her work has been read on ABC Jazz Alive and Poetica, Radio National. In 2010 she became the University of Wollongong’s inaugural Janet Cosh Poet, resulting in the work, Collecting The Collector. She facilitates creative writing and poetry workshops and works as a mentor with a talented indigenous poet. Christine has no friends, two sons and one daughter and bribes her family to live with her in Kiama, New South Wales.