Gavin Yuan Gao Gavin Yuan Gao i(16829527 works by)
Gender: Non-binary
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Gavin Yuan Gao is a Brisbane-based genderqueer poet and translator educated in Queensland and Michigan.

This author uses they/them pronouns.

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y separately published work icon At the Altar of Touch St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2022 23428662 2022 selected work poetry

'From the 2020 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Award comes a sophisticated, impressive and rich collection of poetry that unpacks the complexity of family, grief, and cross-cultural and queer identity.

'These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss. This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new voice.' (Publication summary)
2024 winner Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — John Bray Award for Poetry
2023 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
2023 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
2022 highly commended Anne Elder Award
2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
2023 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Poetry
2022 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Judith Wright Calanthe Award
2020 winner Queensland Poetry Festival Awards — Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript
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