Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is a graduate of the University of Queensland where she majored in Japanese. A poet and visual artist living in Townsville, she has been a guest of major poetry festivals throughout Australia and published her first volume of poems Eating The Experience with Metro Press in 1994. Her second book, Scar Country, was published by University of Queensland Press in 2000. Her unpublished long poem 'Night Is The Smell of Burning' won the inaugural Arts Queensland Poetry Award vin 1999. Her first solo art exhibition Little Dangers was held at Flinders Gallery in 1999; a second exhibition was held at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, both in Townsville. She has been awarded an Asialink residency at Keio University, Japan; and, as a recipient of an Arts Queensland project grant, is currently completing her first verse novel Holiday Coast Medusa.