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Judith Bishop was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1972. Her poems have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship in Poetry (2002-2004), an Academy of American Poets Prize (2004), and the Australian Book Review Poetry Prize (2006), and appear in The Best Australian Poetry 2006 (ed. Judith Beveridge) and The Best Australian Poems 2006 (ed. Dorothy Porter). She has postgraduate degrees in French literature (MPhil., University of Cambridge), Writing (M.F.A., Washington University in St Louis) and Linguistics (PhD., University of Melbourne). Her dissertation was the first doctoral-length study of intonation in an Australian Aboriginal language. She has published translations from the Swiss-born French poet Philippe Jaccottet, and is working on a full-length manuscript of translations from a selection of Jaccottet’s prose works. She is a Linguist/Project Manager with a speech technology company in Sydney.
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