Melbourne poet.
Amanda Anastasi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing and Literature from Deakin University.
She has been a member of the Melbourne Poets Union, Australian Poetry Centre and Victorian Writers Centre; has received the Words in Winter Trentham Contemporary Poetry Prize and the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize; and has published in a wide range of Australian and international periodicals. Her first poetry collection, 2012 and Other Poems, appeared in 2012, and her second, The Silences, co-authored with Robbie Coburn, in 2016.
In 2013, she began the role of curator of La Mama Poetica, which runs regular poetry nights at La Mama theatre spaces.
