‘It’s true that I find the horizon and the construction of vanishing-point perspective really interesting—almost a language, trying to get at a tension between inwardness and the world as it is.’
Lisa Gorton writes poetry, fiction and essays. Her two most recent publications, both from Giramondo, are Empirical and a novel, The Life of Houses. Lisa wrote a doctorate on John Donne’s poetry and prose at Oxford University. Her awards include the Prime Minister’s Prize for Fiction, the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal, and the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry.
Jessica L. Wilkinson is the author of three verse biographies, Marionette: A Biography of Miss Marion Davies (2012), Suite for Percy Grainger (2014) and Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine (2019). She is Editor-in-Chief of Rabbit and an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne.
