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2026 Porter Prize Judges

Judith Bishop JUDGESJudith Bishop

Judith Bishop is the author of three award-winning poetry collections, Event (Salt, 2007), Interval (UQP, 2018), and Circadia (2024), as well as three limited edition chapbooks, including Here Hear (Life Before Man, 2022). Judith’s awards include the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize for Interval and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011). Her poems have been used as lyrics for compositions including Jane Stanley’s ‘14 Weeks’ for the Glasgow School of Art Choir (2023), ‘The Indifferent’ for the Hermes Experiment (2024), Andrew Ford’s ‘Isolation Hymn’ (2021), and Mastaneh Nazarian’s ‘Aubade’ (2019). Judith lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has studied in the United States and Britain. She currently works in Advancement at La Trobe University and is writing a book about AI and human data.

 

Felicity Plunkett JUDGESFelicity Plunkett

Felicity Plunkett is a poet and critic. Her books are A Kinder Sea (UQP), Vanishing Point (UQP) and the chapbook Seastrands (Vagabond). Felicity was Poetry Editor for University of Queensland Press for nine years and edited the collection Thirty Australian Poets (UQP). She has a PhD from the University of Sydney and her reviews and essays have been published in places such as Sydney Review of Books, Australian Review of Books and The Irish Times. 

 

Anders Villani JUDGESAnders Villani

Anders Villani is the author of Aril Wire (Five Islands Press, 2018) and Totality (Recent Work Press, 2022).