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Australian poet and writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marcella Polain (born 1958) is an Australian-resident poet, novelist and short fiction writer.
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Marcella Polain | |
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.jpg) Polain at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019 | |
| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and writer |
Marcella Polain was born in Singapore and migrated to Australia at the age of two with her Irish father and Armenian mother.[1]
Polain studied Literature and Creative Arts at Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University). For a short while she attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney. At Western Australian Secondary Teachers' College (now Edith Cowan University), she took a Post Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education. Polain completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia.
Polain entered the Perth poetry scene in the early 1990s. She was a founding member (along with Morgan Yasbincek, Julia Lawrinson, Tracy Ryan and Sarah French) of Perth's WEB women's readings, which brought guests such as Dorothy Porter and Gig Ryan to Perth. She has been poetry editor for the literary magazines Westerly, Blue Dog, and co-edited Australian Poetry Journal Vol.11 2024 with poet Andy Jackson. She tutored in Writing for 10 years at Murdoch University and University of Western Australia before becoming Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University.
Her first novel, The Edge of the World, based on her family's survival of the Armenian genocide, won the University of Western Australia's Higher Degree by Research Prize for Publications, and was nominated for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional best first book award.
Her poetry has been published internationally and in translation. She has been a recipient of an Australia Council Grant for New Work of Fiction, which resulted in the publication of Driving into the Sun (2019). In 2012, at Edith Cowan University and with visual artist Paul Uhlmann, she co-founded the micropress 'fold editions', dedicated to the creation of hand-made books. She has also worked interdisciplinarily with composer-musicians, dancer-choreographers and other visual artists.
In April 2015, the Armenian translation of The Edge of the World was launched in Yerevan at the Centenary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, also part of the Global Conference Against Genocide. In 2015, Polain was also awarded the International Grand Prize for Poetry by the Academia Orient Occident.[2]
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