Lucy Dougan


Lucy Dougan is an Australian poet whose first collection was published in 1998.

Early life and education

Dougan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1966.
In 2009, she completed her PhD thesis at the University of Western Australia in dual format ‘’On the Circumvesuviana’’ and ‘’The Vesuvian Imaginary: The Woman's Journey to Naples in Three Texts’’. Her thesis formed the basis of her 2012 publication, On the Circumvesuviana.

Works

Poetry

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As editor

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Awards and recognition

Memory Shell won the 2000 Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry at the ASAL AwardsWhite Clay won the 2006 Alec Bolton Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, ACT Poetry PrizeThe Guardians was shortlisted for the 2015 Judith Wright Calanthe Award