Bron Bateman

Bron Bateman is a poet, editor, playwright, and educator from Boorloo (Perth). Her first poetry collection, People from bones was published by Ragged Raven Press (UK) in 2002. Her PhD, a collection of poetry and an exegesis exploring female embodiment and experiences of motherhood was completed in 2012. Her second collection, Of Memory and Furniture, which was Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2021, was published by Fremantle Press in 2020. Her third collection, Blue Wren, was published by Fremantle Press in 2022. Her work has been published in collections and journals such as Westerly, Southerly, Cordite Poetry Review, and the Australian Poetry Journal. In 2004 she was awarded the Bobbie Cullen Memorial Prize for Creative Writing. In 2017 she received Columbia University’s Winter Poetry Prize and in 2021 and 2024 she was shortlisted and commended for the Tom Collins National Poetry Prize. Her edited anthology Women of a Certain Courage was published by Fremantle Press in 2025. Her fourth collection Love Like This Isn’t Harmless is forthcoming with Fremantle Press in July 2025.