Judith Bishop

Judith Bishop

Dr Judith Bishop is a poet, nonfiction writer and translator. She is currently a Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellow at La Trobe University, where she researches the intersections of language, creativity and AI. Judith is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Event (Salt, 2007) and Interval (UQP, 2018) and three limited edition chapbooks including Here Hear (Life Before Man, 2022). Her third full collection is Circadia (UQP, 2024). Her awards include the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize for Interval (2018), the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011) and the Melbourne Prize for Literature Civic Choice Award (2024) for an essay on AI and body odour. She has written lyrics for compositions including Jane Stanley’s ‘14 Weeks’ (Glasgow School of Art Choir, 2024) and ‘The Indifferent’ (Delphian Records, 2024), and Andrew Ford’s ‘Isolation Hymn’ (2021). Her creative nonfiction book on AI and human data is forthcoming in 2027.

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