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Julie Chevalier Julie Chevalier i(A88482 works by)
Born: Established: New Jersey,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1965
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BiographyHistory

Raised in Glen Rock, New Jersey (United States), Chevalier attended St Lawrence University in upstate New York. After moving to Australia in 1965, she completed an MA in Literature at Sydney University and a second MA in Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Chevalier has taught English, ceramics, and art, recorded with The River Road Poetry Series, and most recently has taught poetry and short story workshops at the New South Wales Writers Centre, South Coast Writers’ Centre, Central Coast Poetry Group, Gloucester Poetry Group and the Sydney WEA . Art and photography are re-occurring themes in her writing.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 finalist The Joanne Burns Award
2011 third The Newcastle Poetry Prize for 'darger: his girls'
2009 winner for A Cylinder for the Tree Trunk Society of Women Writers, New South Wales, Awards National Short Story Competition

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Darger : A Sequence of Poems Darger : His Girls Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2012 Z1833227 2012 sequence poetry

Henry Darger was an untrained artist and a social isolate who was obsessed with little girls. When he died in Chicago in 1973 at the age of 81, his work was completely unknown. Now his work is hung in major international art galleries and his innovative use of materials places him in the pop art milieu. The poems in this book tell the story of his life.


 
2013 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Poetry
2011 winner Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize Alec Bolton Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Australian Poet
Women of Antiquity 2002 2008 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Linen Tough as History 2012; (p. 35-39)
2007 joint runner-up The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
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