Delys Margaret Bird is a Western Australian writer, academic and editor. She was editor of literary journal '' Westerly'' from 1993 to 2015 and has acted as editorial consultant since then.

Biography

Bird was born in

Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is sometimes referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder, as the surrounding urban area inclu ...

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to ...

. After living in Sydney for a period, Bird’s tertiary education began as a mature age student at the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany, Western Australia, Albany an ...

(UWA) in the 1970s. She began teaching at UWA in 1980 and also taught literature at the

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(WAIT; later Curtin University). In 1985, Bird joined the faculty of Arts at UWA, where she was a member of the English Department as well as director of the Centre for Women’s Studies until her retirement in 2003. Bird was editor of Western Australian literary journal '' Westerly'' from 1993 to 2015 and is currently editorial consultant to that publication. She had previously served as the journal's poetry editor. Bird has also conducted extensive research in Australian literature, with a focus on women writers and feminist theory.

Awards

In 2011, Bird was the recipient of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’s A.A Philips award for her long period of excellence in the editing of ''Westerly''. Bird was made a

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(AM) in the

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in recognition of her "significant service to higher education, and to gender studies and literature".

Selected publications

Books

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Journals

*'' Westerly'' (literary magazine), Editor 1990–present *
Pdf.

References

External links

*http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/delys.bird *http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A20660 *https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205032/http://westerlymag.com.au/about/staff/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Bird, Delys Australian non-fiction writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the Order of Australia People from Kalgoorlie Writers from Western Australia University of Western Australia alumni Academic staff of the University of Western Australia 20th-century Australian women writers 21st-century Australian women writers