'Rosanna E. Licari has an Istrian-Italian background. Her poetry has been published in national and international journals. Her poetry collection An Absence of Saints (UQP) won the Thomas Shapcott Manuscript Prize, the Anne Elder Poetry Award, the Wesley Michel Wright Award and it was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award. She is the poetry editor of StylusLit www.styluslit.com, and she teaches English to migrants and refugees in Brisbane (Meanjin), Australia.'
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