Christine Paice

Christine Paice is a poet, novelist and children’s book author. Her work has been published in The Best Australian Poems, Australian Love Poems, Prayers of a Secular World, Recent Work Press, and Not Very Quiet, and has been performed on BBC Radio 3, Jazz Alive on Vox FM, and Poetica on Radio National, and published in the UK, the USA, and Ireland. She has won the prestigious 2009 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize and the 2024 Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry, and she has been shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize, the UK Bridport Prize, the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize, and the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. She works as a manuscript assessor and a creative writing mentor, and is an acclaimed observer of shadows, fields, and driveways.