Lachlan Brown is a senior lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Charles Sturt University where he has supervised and marked a number of PhDs in creative practice. Lachlan’s poems have appeared in The Weekend Australian, The Best Australian Poems, Australian Book Review, and Rabbit.He has been shortlisted and commended for various prizes including the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, the Booranga Poetry Prize, and the Blake Poetry Prize. In 2021 Lachlan won the Newcastle Poetry Prize.
Lachlan has worked on exhibitions and projects with visual and photographic artists including Dr Tony Curran (Limiting Entropy) and James Farley (Walking in Isolation). Lachlan has significant experience in poetic commissions and has created works for the Powerhouse Museum, the Redroom Company and ABC Everyday.
Lachlan was poet in residence at Artstate, Wagga Wagga and has read poetry at festivals around Australia. He has chaired the judging panel for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry in the NSW Premier’s Literary awards and has experience judging many other poetry and literary prizes. Lachlan has published two books with Giramondo Publishing.
For more information about Lachlan’s research, his CRO page is here.
