Katherine Gallagher
Katherine Gallagher is an Australian poet resident in London. Translations of her poems have appeared in French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian and Serbo-Croat.
Gallagher translated from French to English Jean-Jacques Celly's poems in The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay.
Awards
- 1978, Australian Literature Board Fellowship.
- 1981, Brisbane Warana Prize.
- 1986, nomination of "Passengers to the City" for the John Bray National Poetry Award.
- 2000, Royal Literary Fund award.
- 2008, London Society of Authors' Foundation award.
Career
- Writer in Residence at Railway Fields Nature Reserve, Harringay, in 2002.
- Writers Inc/Blue Nose Poets' Education Officer until 2008. In 2004/2005 this included coordinating the Young Writer's Mentorship Project funded by the Arts Council.
- Poet in Residence for Havering Council's third annual Parks and Arts Healthy Lifestyle Walk in Hornchurch Country Park on 17 July 2006.
- Founder of the Poetry Society Stanza Group, started in March 2007.