Nicolette
Stasko was born in the US of Polish and Hungarian ancestry and
emigrated to Australia in 1979. Her first collection of poetry
Abundance
(1992) won the Anne Elder Award in 1993 and was shortlisted for the
Dame Mary Gilmore Award, the New South Wales Premier’s Prize
and
the National Book Awards. She has since published three further
collections,
Black
Night with Windows (1994),
Dwelling in the Shape of Things
(1999),
In Certain Light
(2001) and
The Weight of Irises
(2003) as well as the best-selling non fiction work
Oyster: from Montparnasse to
Greenwell Point
(2000). She is a reviewer, editor, essayist and teacher and has
recently completed her PhD at the University of Sydney. Her New and
Selected Poems
Glass
Cathedrals was released in 2006. She currently
lives in Sydney. Black Pepper released Stasko’s
first
fiction,
The
Invention of Everyday Life,
in 2007.
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