Pam Brown

Background

Pam Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria.

Career

Most of her childhood was spent on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has lived in Melbourne and Adelaide, and has travelled widely in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions as well as Europe and the United States., but mostly she has lived in Sydney. She has made her living as a silkscreen printer, postal worker, public servant and has taught writing, multi-media studies and film-making and worked from 1989 to 2006 as a librarian at University of Sydney.

From 1997 to 2002 Pam Brown was the poetry editor of Overland and from 2004 to 2011 she was the associate editor of Jacket magazine.

She has been a guest at poetry festivals worldwide, taught at the University for Foreign Languages, Hanoi, and during 2003 had Australia Council writers residency in Rome. In 2013 she held the Distinguished Visitor Award at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Achievements

• Nominations – 1984 – NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry for "New & Selected Poems 1971–1982" 1999 – NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry for "50-50" 2004 – The Age Book Of The Year Award – Poetry, VIC for "True Thoughts" 2010 – Adelaide Festival Award for Poetry, Société Anonyme for "True Thoughts" 2010 – The Age Book Of The Year Award – Poetry, VIC for "Authentic Local" Awards – 2004 – Kenneth Slessor Award for Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems.

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