Zenobia Frost is a poet based in Brisbane, Australia. Her work can be found in Cordite, Scum, Woolf Pack, Australian Poetry Journal and Contemporary Feminist Poetry. She won the 2018 Val Vallis Award for her poem, ‘Reality On-Demand‘.
Zenobia’s second poetry collection, After the Demolition, is out with Cordite Books. Her debut poetry collection, Salt and Bone (Walleah Press) was shortlisted for the 2013 Thomas Shapcott Prize.
She is an MPhil candidate at the Queensland University of Technology, writing new poems that respond to the paradox of place identity and transience in share-house accommodation.
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Grants and prizes
- Arts Queensland Val Vallis Prize: first place, 2018
- Overland Judith Wright Prize for Emerging Poets: shortlisted, 2017
- Queensland Literary Awards: Queensland Writers Fellowship, 2017
- Red Room Poetry Fellowship: shortlisted, 2017, 2018
- ArtStart 2015, Australia Council
- FAW Anne Elder Award: commended, 2014
- Overland Judith Wright Prize for Emerging Poets: shortlisted, 2013
- John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers: 2nd Prize, 2013
- Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize: shortlisted, 2013
- Varuna, the Writers’ House Professional Development Residency, funded by the Creative Industries Career Fund (Nov. 2012)
- John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers: 3rd Prize, 2011
- University of Queensland Kingshott Cassidy Poetry Award, 2011
- University of Queensland Ford Memorial Prize, 2009
Roles
- Queensland Poetry Festival: communications coordinator, 2019; committee member, 2007–12
- Stilts Journal: co-editor, 2018
- Cordite Poetry Review: coordinating editor, 2012–2017
- Woolf Pack: poetry editor, 2016–2018
- Voiceworks Magazine: poetry editor/committee member, 2012–2014
- OffStreet Press: managing editor/arts editor, 2012
- Rave Magazine: arts editor, 2010–12
This website was selected for PANDORA archive by the State Library of Queensland.
