Lisa Gorton


Lisa Gorton is an Australian poet, novelist, literary editor and essayist.

Education

Gorton was born in 1972. She attended St Catherine's School in Toorak, Victoria, graduating in 1989. She gained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, studying poetry with Chris Wallace-Crabbe. She then won a Rhodes Scholarship which enabled her to complete a Master of Arts and then PhD at the University of Oxford. Her doctorate was on John Donne, for which she won the John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication in Donne Studies. While at Oxford she worked as a tutor for a time at Rhodes University in South Africa.

Career

Gorton returned and worked for McKinsey and Company and Scaffidi Hugh-Jones. She then became a full-time writer.
In 1994 she was awarded the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize.
At TEDxSydney 2010 Gorton gave a poetry reading.
Having previously worked as poetry editor for the literary journal, Gorton was the Australian Book Review's Poet of the Month in October 2019. Gorton has contributed essays to the Australian Book Review and the Sydney Review of Books.
She is the grand-daughter of the former Prime Minister John Gorton.

Awards and recognition

Poetry

Individual poems have been published in Heat magazine, Poetry magazine, The Best Australian Poems 2008, The Best Australian Poems 2009, The Best Australian Poems 2010, The Best Australian Poems 2012

Novels