Angela Costi

Poet and community advocate

she/they

Naarm/Melbourne, VIC

Poet and community advocate

she/they

Naarm/Melbourne, VIC

Introduction

Angela Costi is a poet and writer with a background in social justice, law and community arts. The author of six poetry collections with the most recent, The Heart of the Advocate (published by Liquid Amber Press), which deals with the intersections of poetry and legal advocacy. In 1995, she received a travel award from the Australia National Languages Board to study Ancient Greek drama in Greece, and this study still weaves itself into her writing. Her poetry has been listed and placed in a number of prizes, including the joanne burns Microlit Award, NSW Poetry Prize, MPU International Poetry Competition, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and the Newcastle Poetry Prize 2026. She won the University of Canberra’s Health Poetry Prize 2024 and the Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Poetry Prize 2022.

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