AustLit

Perth-based Scott-Patrick Mitchell began studying criminal psychology at Edith Cowan University in 1995 before transferring to poetry and writing in 1998. In 2012 Mitchell was the official Local Government Managers Australia (LGMA) National Congress 'Poet-in-Residence'; an initiative of LGMA National and the 2012 Year of Reading. Mitchell attended the National Congress in Perth and performed his observations in prose at the end of each day.