Emily Ballou is an Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Her first poetry collection The Darwin Poems, a verse portrait of Charles Darwin, was published by University of Western Australia Press in 2009.[1] It was written as part of an Australia Council for the Arts residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland.[2]
She is also the author of the novels Father Lands (Picador, 2002),[3] Aphelion (Picador, 2007) and the picture book One Blue Sock (with illustrations by Stephen Michael King) (Random House, 2007).[2]
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Emily Ballou was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1968. She immigrated to Australia in 1991.[3] She studied Fine Arts and English at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, graduating with a Bachelor in Fine Arts with Honours in 1992 and completed a Master of Letters in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney in 1995.
2010 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards: Shortlisted for The Darwin Poems[4]
2010 – Western Australian Premier's Book Awards: Shortlisted for The Darwin Poems[5]
2010 – Fellowship of Australian Writers Anne Elder Award: Highly Commended for The Darwin Poems[6]
2010 – Australian Literature Society Gold Medal: Shortlisted for The Darwin Poems[1]
2010 – Mary Gilmore Prize: Shortlisted for The Darwin Poems[7]
2009 – Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize for The Darwin Poems[1]
2003 – Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist for Father Lands[8]
1997 – The Ibis Foundation's Judith Wright Prize for Poetry for the poem "Enter"[2]
2009 – The Darwin Poems, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 1-921401-27-3, 9781921401275.
2007 – Aphelion, Picador: Pan Macmillan Australia, ISBN 0-330-42312-6, 9780330423120.
2007 – One Blue Sock, Random House Australia, ISBN 1-74166-228-1, 9781741662283.
2002 – Father Lands, Picador: Pan Macmillan Australia, ISBN 0-330-36384-0, 9780330363846.
2010 – "The Beach",The Penguin Book of the Ocean[9]
2010 – "Darwin as Metaphor", Journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Birkbeck: University of London, No. 11, pp. 1–17.[10]
2009 – "Here is a Hair From Her Head", Best Australian Short Stories[11]
2008 – "On the Splice", Best Australian Short Stories[12]