Gayelene Carbis
Gayelene Carbis is an award-winning writer of poetry, prose and plays, whose work has been widely performed and published in Australia and overseas. Gayelene was recently shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, Fish Poetry Prize (Ireland); work & tumble Chapbook Prize; Adrien Abbott, Martha Richardson and Melbourne Poets’ Union International Poetry Prizes. In 2012, Gayelene was awarded a Poetry Scholarship and CAL Travel Grant to the Banff Arts Centre in Canada. Her most recent one-woman show won Best Premiere Production at the Sarasota Festival (U.S.) this year and will be performed in Melbourne.