Sarah Holland-Batt is an Australian poet, editor, critic and academic. Born in Southport, Australia, she grew up in Australia and the United States, and has also lived in in Italy and Japan. She holds a first-class honours degree in literature and an MPhil in English from the University of Queensland, and an M.F.A. in poetry from New York University, where she was the W.G. Walker Memorial Fulbright Scholar from 2010-2011. She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship, an Asialink Literature Residency, a Hawthornden Fellowship, and the Australia Council Literature Residency at the B.R. Whiting Studio in Rome, among other honours.
Her first book, Aria, was the recipient of several literary prizes, including the Anne Elder Award, the Arts ACT Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and the Thomas Shapcott Prize. It was shortlisted in both the New South Wales and Queensland Premiers' Literary Awards, and was commended for The Age's Poetry Book of the Year. Her second book, The Hazards, was published by the University of Queensland Press in May 2015. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Slate, Agenda, The Massachusetts Review, The Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and many others, and have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and Bahasa Indonesian. She currently lives in Brisbane, where she is a senior lecturer and coordinator of the Creative Writing MFA Program at QUT, and the poetry editor of Island magazine
