Jordie Albiston

Jordie Albiston (1961 - March 2022) was born in Melbourne. She studied flute at the Victorian College of the Arts before turning to writing. Her poetry has been widely published in Australia and overseas and she has performed her work on radio and international television. She edited Divan (1998).

Jordie published four collections of poetry, including Nervous Arcs (1995) winner of the Mary Gilmore Award, Botany Bay Document (1996), The Hanging of Jean Lee (1998) and the The Fall (2003). She was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the C.J. Dennis Prize for Poetry in 2003; and for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in 2004. She was joint winner of the Wesley Michel Wright Award in 1991, and has also won the Dinny O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship.