Lisa Gorton's first collection, Press Release, was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award and the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award, and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry.
She completed a doctorate on John Donne’s poetry and prose. She has also written a novel for children, Cloudland.
Gorton lives in Melbourne.
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