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About & Contact

Kristin Hannaford is a Queensland based writer. Her new poetry collection Curio (Walleah Press 2014) invites readers into a world of artefacts, curiosities and natural history specimens.  

Previous collections include the chapbook Fragile Context (Post Pressed 2007), ‘Inhale’ in Swelter (Interactive Press 2013) and with Paul Summers – Trace (Creative Capricorn, 2013) – a chapbook of commissioned poems exploring histories of Rockhampton.

Her award-winning poems and short fiction are published in a range of Australian and International literary journals, including Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, and Overland, as well as on ferries and on signage for the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

Kristin teaches English at a school in Rockhampton, Central Queensland.

Contact: kristinhannaford (at) hotmail.com