Emilie Zoey Baker is an award-winning poet and spoken word performer who has performed and been published nationally and internationally.
Emilie is the 2010 winner of SlamReview, the poetry slam held during this year’s Berlin International Literature Festival, in which she competed as the first-ever Australian entrant among contestants from ten countries. She also performed poetry in London, Paris and Singapore as well as being a featured guest at the 2010 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali.
In 2009 she toured North America along with fellow poets Alicia Sometimes and Sean M Whelan following an invitation to perform at Montréal’s Festival Voix d'Amériques. The tour included New York, Chicago, Ottawa, Montréal, Torronto and Vanvouver.
The winner of the 2006 Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup and multi-slam champion, Emilie has featured at the Newcastle Young Writers Festival, at Melbourne’s famed La Mama Theatre and at the last two Melbourne Writers Festivals. She has toured in a live music and poetry collaboration with Sean M Whelan and the Mime Set to Castlemaine, for the Australian Poetry Festival, and to the Woodford Folk Festival. She recently performed at the Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Night Words Festival at the Sydney Opera House.
Emilie has taught poetry internationally and produced two poetry anthologies: Word Up, a book and CD collaboration from schools within the City of Melbourne, and The Great Artscape by students at Templestowe Primary and Seniors as part of Artlinks through the City of Manningham.
Emilie’s poetry has been published widely in Australia and internationally, in journals such as Going Down Swinging, Cordite, Schriftstelle (Germany) and Short Fuse (US), Page Seventeen and Unusual Work. She recently published poems inspired by the films of David Lynch in the collections We Don’t Stop Here and A Slice of Cherry Pie (The Private Press, UK/US).
Emilie Zoey Baker defies slam poetry's critics, delivering an energetic celebration of the lively, versatile form.
