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= Fiona Wright = Fiona Wright (1983-,) is an Australian poet and critic. Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays in Hunger (2015) is a collection of ten essays that detail the authors own experience with anorexia. Small Acts of Disappearance won the 2016 Kibble Award, which recognises life writing by women writers, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. She recently completed a PhD at the Western Sydney University, Writing and Society Research Centre. Wright's debut collection of poetry, Knuckled (2011) was awarded the Dame Mary Gilmore Award in 2012.

Biography
Fiona Wright grew up in Menai, NSW. Wright has completed numerous residencies, including a Island of Residencies placement at the Tasmania Writers’ Centre in 2007. She also received an Emerging Writers’ Grant by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 2010. Her poems have featured in the Black Inc. annual anthology of Best Australian Poems in 2015 and 2016.

Works
Her poetry has also been published in the Age, the Australian’s Literary Review, Black Inc’s Best Australian Poetry and in journals and anthologies in Australia, Asia and the USA.
 * Knuckled Giramondo Publishing, 2011.
 * Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays in Hunger Giramondo Publishing, 2015.

Quotes
"""To the children of poets,""on behalf of all poets,""I apologise.""I apologise for your obscure literary names""you'll spend a lifetime spelling out."- "To The Children of Poets", Knuckled 2011.