Kathryn Hummel is an Australian writer, mixed-media artist and multidisciplinary researcher. She is currently working with IIT Hyderabad as visiting faculty and with the Australian creative arts journal Verity La as associate editor. She has authored six books of poems, Lamentville (2019) being the latest. A widely-travelled performance poet and artist-in-residence, her writing across genres has been published, performed, translated and anthologised worldwide. She is a recipient of the NEC/Meanjin Essay Writing Competition prize, the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Dorothy Porter Award and Copyright Agency Ltd’s Best Poetry prize and her work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, among others.
Years: 2020, 2017, 2015, 2014