Background
Grant Caldwell was born on March 6, 1947 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Grant Caldwell was born on March 6, 1947 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Grant Caldwell completed an economics degree at the University of Melbourne in 1970.
After living in Europe in the early 70s he devoted his time to writing. He has been teaching Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne since 1995. His creative work: poetry, stories and extended narratives, have been published widely in Australia since the early 70s, as well as in Canada, Columbia, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States. He has had nine books published, seven collections of poetry, a novel, and a collection of short stories. His work has been translated into Bengali, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic.
Grant was the Managing Editor of the Australian Poetry Centre's national poetry journal Blue Dog from 2007 to 2010; he was an inaugural board member of the Australian Poetry Centre, and the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Bid in 2007, and the Steering Committee for the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. He has represented Australia at international poetry festivals in Columbia, New Zealand, and Japan. He is currently the head of the Creative Writing program, a position he has held since the beginning of 2013.