Jarad Bruinstroop’s debut poetry collection, Reliefs (UQP, 2023) won the Wesley Michel
Wright Prize, the Five Islands Poetry Prize, the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and was
shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award.

He is the recipient of the Val Vallis Award, the Queensland Writers Fellowship, and the Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellowship.

His work has appeared in The Best of Australian Poems, Meanjin, Overland, HEAT, Island,
Westerly and elsewhere including at the Queensland Art Gallery, QUT Art Museum, and
George Paton Gallery.

He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from QUT where he now teaches.

He is currently at work on a short story collection.

Photo: Torrey Atkin

Production & Interview: Tina Giannoukos