Faye Zwicky: Contents page

Fay Zwicky (b.1933) was born in Melbourne, and began publishing poetry and short stories as an undergraduate at Melbourne University. She has been a concert pianist and was a Senior Lecturer in English literature at the University of Western Australia. She now devotes her time entirely to writing. Fay Zwicky has received a number of awards. She was the winner of the 1982 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Poetry, for Kaddish and Other Poems (UQP, 1982), and the 1991 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, Poetry Award for Ask Me (UQP, 1990). In 1993 she published the collection Fay Zwicky: Poems 1970–1992 (UQP, 1993).