Lou Garcia-Dolnik

Lou Garcia-Dolnik is a poet living and working on sovereign Gadigal-Wangal lands. Their poetry has appeared in journals including Overland, Meanjin, LIMINAL, Debris, Un Magazine, Runway Journal, Cordite and Australian Poetry Journal, and they have edited for journals including Runway, Cordite and Voiceworks. Lou's work has been awarded Second Prize in Overland’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a place on the shortlist for the Blake Prize, Val Vallis Awards, LIMINAL Non-Fiction Prize, the Kat Muscat Fellowship, and an Academy of American Poets University Prize from the University of Texas at Austin. An alumnus of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Emerging Writers Intensive, Lou was the 2023 recipient of the Australian Poetry/NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship and attended Tin House’s Summer Workshop in the poetry faculty.