Ross Gillett
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Introduction
Ross Gillett who lives on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Daylesford with his wife Julie Phillips, started his professional life as a tutor in English at Melbourne and then Monash universities, and was the inaugural Lecturer in Poetry in the Creative Writing School at the Prahran College of Advanced Education. All that was quite a while ago, and since then he has had a long career in tertiary education administration, local government and the Victorian Public Service. He has, however, continued to maintain a strong focus on poetry, both as a teacher and writer, having conducted many workshops and having published four poetry collections. In his retirement he works part-time as a poetry editor and mentor. He is poetry editor for Puncher and Wattmann and Liquid Amber Press, two of Australia’s leading publishers of poetry. His poems have won a number of major Australian poetry prizes, including the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the John Shaw Neilson Award, the Woorilla Poetry Prize and the NSW and Victorian Poets Union prizes, and the first ever Daylesford Words inWinter poetry prize, the Reason-Brisbane Prize.
