Alison Croggon is an Australian poet, prose writer, and critic. Her first book of poems, This is the Stone, won the Anne Elder and Dame Mary Gilmore Prizes in 1991, and she has been nominated subsequently for various other awards. Melbourne theatre critic for the national daily newspaper, The Australian, and founding editor of the online literary journal Masthead, in 2000 Croggon was Writer in Residence at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She was also organiser of the Australian wing of Poets Against the War, a literary protest against the war on Iraq.
Her most recent poetry collection, Theatre, is out this year from Salt Publishing. Other collections include Attempts at Being and The Common Flesh: New and Selected Poems. She is also the author of various works for theatre and the young adult fantasy quartet The Books of Pellinor, the final volume of which, The Singing, is due out in the UK from Walker Books in September. The first three volumes have been published to critical and popular acclaim in Australia, the UK, the US and Germany.

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Alison Croggon's official website

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