Cirrus@Austlit

'Carolyn Fisher grew up in Somerset, England. She worked as a physiotherapist in Australia, Saudi Arabia and Malawi before migrating to the north west coast of Tasmania in 1992. She received a mentorship through the Tasmanian Writers' Centre with poet Sarah Day in 2002, an Arts Tasmania grant in 2003 and an Australia Council grant in 2004. She was selected for the Macquarie Bank Poetry Masterclass comprising of a week at Varuna Writers House in 2006.'

Fisher's poems have been published in literary journals and anthologies in Australia and the United Kingdom. She was a runner up in the Gwen Harwood poetry prize in 2005 and was a featured poet at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival in 2001 and 2005.

Source: PressPress website, http://www.presspress.com.au/
Sighted: 02/09/2008