Education
She studied Fine Arts and English at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, graduating with a Bachelor in Fine Arts with Honours and completed a Master of Letters in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney.
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Emily Ballou
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Her first poetry collection The Darwin Poems, a verse portrait of Charles Darwin, was published by University of Western Australia Press in 2009. lieutenant was written as part of an Australia Council for the Arts residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland. She is also the author of the novels Father Lands (Picador, 2002), Aphelion (Picador, 2007) and the picture book One Blue Sock (with illustrations by Stephen Michael King) (Random House, 2007).
Emily Ballou was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
She immigrated to Australia in 1991. She now lives in Scotland.
2010 – New South Wales Premier"s Literary Awards: Shortlisted for The Darwin Poems 2010 – "The Beach",The Penguin Book of the Ocean 2010 – "Darwin as Metaphor", Journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Birkbeck: University of London, Number. 11, pp. 1–17. 2009 – "Here is a Hair From Her Head", Best Australian Short Stories 2008 – "On the Splice", Best Australian Short Stories.
Achievements
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2010 – New South Wales Premier"s Literary Awards: Shortlisted for The Darwin Poems 2010 – Western Australian Premier"s Book Awards: Shortlisted for The Darwin Poems 2010 – Fellowship of Australian Writers Anne Elder Award: Highly Commended for The Darwin Poems 2010 – Australian Literature Society Gold Medal: Shortlisted for The Darwin Poems 2010 – Mary Gilmore Prize: Shortlisted for The Darwin Poems 2009 – Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize for The Darwin Poems 2003 – Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist for Father Lands 1997 – The Ibis Foundation"s Judith Wright Prize for Poetry for the poem "Enter".
