Rosanna Licari

Rosanna Licari has an Istrian-Italian background. Her poetry collection An Absence of Saints won the Arts QLD Thomas Shapcott Manuscript Prize in Poetry, the Anne Elder Poetry Award, and the Wesley Michel Wright Award, and it was shortlisted for the ASAL Dame Mary Gilmore Award. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Antipodes; AriLiJo (USA); Australian Love Poems; Best Australian Poems; Bluepepper; Carmenta Broadsheet (Italian Institute of Culture; Melbourne); Communion; Cordite; e:foam; e:ratio (USA); fourW: New Writing; The Global Anthology (Canada); Island; Meniscus; Not Very Quiet; Poetry for the Planet Anthology; Poetry on the Move; Pulped Fiction: an anthology of microlit (Spineless Wonders); Quadrant; Shearsman (UK); Red Room Disappearing Project; Small Packages Anthology; Scars: an anthology of microlit (Spineless Wonders); Softblow (Singapore); Stilts; The Australian Poetry Journal; The Lane Cove Literary Anthology; The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology; Tincture; The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize Anthology; Transnational Literature; Verity La; We Are Multitudes, Twelve Years of Softblow Anthology (Singapore); Wild Court (King’s College, UK); and Not Very Quiet 2017–2021 Anthology. As well, she was the judge for the QPF Emerging Older Poets mentorship with mentor, Philip Neilsen (2018 - 2020). She is a Varuna and Hawthornden fellow, and is the poetry editor of StylusLit. She teaches migrants an refugees in Brisbane, Queensland.