Yvonne Patterson

Yvonne Patterson is a New Zealand born poet living in Boorloo, Western Australia. Yvonne’s poetry explores borders and fault lines based on the choices we make in our social, political and environmental contexts and includes feminist and queer perspectives. Her draft collection lineage: fault lines was shortlisted in the 2024 Flying Islands Poetry Manuscript Prize. Individual poems appear in such journals as Plumwood Mountain, Not Very Quiet, Australian Poetry Journal, Writer Resist, Science Write Now and in anthologies such as Grieve, FourW, Liquid Amber Press, Brushstrokes and Cuttlefish. Her poetry draws upon experience in her career as a clinical psychologist and in human service policy. Yvonne was in the WA Emerging Writers Program 2021-2023.