Biography

Born in Sydney, Jaya Savige is an award-winning poet and critic and is currently the Poetry Editor for The Australian newspaper. From 2013-2021 he was Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing at the New College of the Humanities in London, where he founded the Creative Writing degree. He read for his PhD on James Joyce at Christ’s College, Cambridge, on a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridge Trust (2009-13). Savige's first collection of poetry, Latecomers (UQP 2005), won the NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was highly commended for the Dame Mary Gilmore Prize and was shortlisted for several other awards. His second volume, Surface to Air (UQP 2011), was shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year and the West Australian Premier’s Prize. His most recent collection, Change Machine (UQP 2020), was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and several other awards. His work appears in The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, Thirty Australian Poets, Contemporary Australian Poetry and elsewhere. He has given readings by invitation in London, New York, Berlin, Prague, Verona, Bali and throughout Australia, and he has held Australia Council writing residencies in Rome (B.R. Whiting Studio) and Paris (Cité Internationale des Arts).

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