About
Shari Kocher
A poet, creative writer, therapist and thinker.
Kocher’s written work has been featured in literary journals in Australia and elsewhere spanning more than two decades. Such journals include The Australian Poetry Journal, Best Australian Poems, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Meanjin, Overland, Plumwood Mountain Journal, Rabbit: a Journal of Non-fiction Poetry, Southerly, and Westerly, among others.
She is the author of Foxstruck and Other Collisions (Puncher and Wattmann, 2021) which was Highly Commended in the NSW Premier’s Literature Prize, and The Non-Sequitur of Snow (Puncher & Wattmann 2015) which was Highly Commended in the Fellowship of Australian Authors' Anne Elder Awards.
Recipient of a Felix Meyer Scholarship and an Australian Postgraduate Award, Shari earned her PhD at Melbourne University in 2015 with a critical thesis on subjectivity and embodiment in the writings of Dorothy Porter and Anne Carson and a deconstructed verse novel inspired by the work of high-altitude archaeologist, Dr. Constanza Ceruti. This adventurous creative work, Sonqoqui combines poetic biography with a lyric interpretation of the lives of three Inca children who lived five hundred years ago.
Prestigious awards include The Peter Steele Poetry Prize (2019), The Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award (2018), The University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize (2016) and second, third and shortlisted placements in the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2015, 2017, 2019, 2024).
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