Sarah Holland-Batt

Sarah Holland-Batt (born 1982) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.

Born in Southport, Queensland, Sarah Holland-Batt grew up in Australia and Denver, Colorado. She was educated at the University of Queensland, where she received First Class Honours in Literary Studies and an MPhil in English, and at New York University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and attained an M.F.A.

Holland-Batt is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell colonies, a Hawthornden Castle residency, and an Australia Council for the Arts Literature Residency at the B.R. Whiting Studio in Rome. Her poems have appeared in numerous international newspapers, periodicals and magazines, including The New Yorker and Poetry, among others, and have been widely anthologised.

She has served as a judge of the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award, and the Australian Book Review's Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize., and is the editor of Black Inc's The Best Australian Poems 2016

She is a member of the Creative Writing faculty at the Queensland University of Technology and the poetry editor of Island Magazine.

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