Judith Beveridge

Judith Beveridge (born 1956) is a contemporary Australian poet, editor and academic. She is a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.

Judith Beveridge was born in London, England,¹ arriving in Australia with her parents in 1960. She started her education at the Auburn North Public School in September 1961, and graduated in 1968 as dux (a title awarded to the student with best aggregate result over all subjects).² Completing a BA at UTS she has worked in libraries, teaching, as a researcher and in environmental regeneration.³ From 2003 until 2018, she taught creative writing at the University of Sydney⁴ and was poetry editor for Meanjin from 2005⁵ to 2015,⁶ having previously edited Hobo and the Australian Arabic literature journal Kalimat.

• 1988 – Mary Gilmore Award for The Domesticity of Giraffes⁷
• 1988 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for The Domesticity of Giraffes⁸
• 1988 – Victorian Premier's Literary Award, C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for The Domesticity of Giraffes⁹
• 1997 – Wesley Michel Wright Prize¹⁰
• 2003 – The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize¹¹
• 2004 – Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award for Wolf Notes¹²
• 2005 – winner of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival¹³
• 2013 – Christopher Brennan Award¹⁴
• 2015 – Peter Porter Poetry Prize¹⁵
• 2015 – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, shortlisted, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Devadatta's Poems.¹⁶
• 2019 – Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Poetry for Sun Music¹⁷
• 2023 – Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry for "Two Houses"¹⁸
• 2025 – Lifetime Achievement award, Creative Australia¹⁹

• Beveridge, Judith. (2001). Four Ascetics, The Literary Review, 45, no. 1, (2001): 152