Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet and critic. She is Poetry Editor at the University of Queensland Press.

Career

Felicity Plunkett has a BA (Honours) and PhD from the University of Sydney. She has worked as an academic at several universities, and is a widely-published writer of poetry, reviews, articles and short stories.

Anthologies

• The Best Australian Poems (Black Inc. 2009). Edited by Robert Adamson. ISBN 9781863954525
• Best Australian Poetry (UQP 2008). Edited by David Brooks. ISBN 978-0-7022-3654-9
• The Best Australian Poems (Black Inc 2008). Edited by Peter Rose. ISBN 9781863953030
• Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (2001) ISBN 187-6-749-180
• Skylines: New Writing From New England (2000) ISBN 064-6-378-775

Awards and nominations

Awards

• Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
  Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
  The Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, named in honour of a distinguished Queensland poet, is a literary award for an unpublished poetry manuscript by a Queensland author...
  
  , 2008, winner for Vanishing Point

• Judith Wright Prize
  Judith Wright Prize
  The Judith Wright Prize is awarded annually as part of the Arts ACT Poetry Prize for a book of poems published the previous year in book form by an Australian author.The prize currently comes with a $10,000 cash award.-2009:...
  
  , 2010, commended for Vanishing Point
• Western Australian Premier's Book Awards (Poetry), shortlisted for Vanishing Point
• Anne Elder Award
  Anne Elder Award
  The Anne Elder Trust Fund Award for poetry is administered by the Victorian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and is awarded annually, as the Anne Elder Award, for the best first book of poetry published in Australia. It was established in 1976 and currently has a prize of A$1000 for...
  
  , commended for Vanishing Point
• Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, 2010, commended for "Ruined Girls"
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, 2007, for Articulate; Stitching the Night; Learning the Bones
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, 2006 for October's Road and Inside Your Wardrobe
• ABC Radio National 2003 Short Story Competition for "Sleeping Like a Baby"