Declan Fry
Declan Fry (he/him) is a writer, essayist, and poet. Born on Wongatha country in Kalgoorlie, Declan Fry has written for The Guardian, Saturday Paper, Overland, Australian Book Review, Liminal, Sydney Review of Books, Cordite, Kill Your Darlings, Westerly and elsewhere. His Meanjin essay 'Justice for Elijah or a Spiritual Dialogue with Ziggy Ramo, Dancing' received the 2021 Peter Blazey Fellowship. He has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and the Pascall Prize in criticism. His latest work appears in Another Australia (Affirm) and in The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel. He lives on unceded Wurundjeri country with his partner and their cat, Turnip.