Biography
Gayelene Carbis is an Australian-Chinese-Cornish-Iri
๐๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ (Five Islands Press) was awarded Finalist – International Book Awards, 2019. In 2022, Gayelene won First Prize, Ros Spencer Poetry Prize; Best Micro Fiction Prize, SF3 Festival; Finalist, Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary WritingโPoetry; and was recently Highly Commended, Woorilla Poetry Prize. Other recent awards: Second Prize, Newcastle Poetry Prize 2021; and 2020โ2021, First Prize, My Brother Jack Poetry Award; Highly Commended/Commended, Ada Cambridge, My Brother Jack, and Yeats Poetry Prizes; and Finalist, Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize. Gayeleneโs second poetry collection, ๐ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ (Puncher and Wattmann) was published in 2022. Gayelene is currently working on a collection of stories.