Biography
Madeleine Dale grew up on Tamborine Mountain and now lives in Brisbane/Meanjin. She holds First Class Honours, a Master of Philosophy and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland. Her first chapbook, On Fire with Dangerous Cargo, was published by Queensland Poetry in 2023. Portraits of Drowning, her first full-length collection, won the 2023 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, the 2024–25 Five Islands Poetry Prize, and was commended for the 2025 Wesley Michel Wright Prize.
