Kristin Henry is a Melbourne poet who loves connecting with a live audience. She has read and sung her poetry in many venues throughout Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom over the past 25 years.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Kristin attended over twenty schools across the southern states of the US before migrating to Australia at the age of 18. Kristin has published five collections of poetry and been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Award. She has also published All the Way Home, her first verse novel, and two nonfiction works, working with publishers including Hale & Iremonger, UWA Publishing, Penguin Australia, Pariah Press, Apricot Tree Press and Victoria University. As well as books she has had poems published in numerous journals and written literary reviews for The Melbourne Age, Australian Book Review, The Herald Sun and others. Since formal retirement from teaching, she has conducted freelance writing workshops, been facilitator and host for a year-long artistic Soiree, and had a CD of poems published. …and completed her PhD.
PhD: Clans and Tribes: attachment networks of older Australian women (2019)