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" Literature has made it possible
for me to live in this world. "
Liz was born in 1964 into the remnants of the British Penal
Colony of Van Dieman's Land. She has escaped to the mainland
four times but prefers the world to come to her. She had
a Catholic education as a non-Catholic, has broken seven
bones mainly through riding horses and motorbikes, has a
genetic auto-immune disease that is so rare it doesn't have
a name only a description and took ten years of doctor's
consultations to be believed in. She's done clerical work,
cartographic work, watered lawns and been a postie.
Liz Winfield
instigated the weekly Republic Readings in 1999 and coordinated
them for 4 years and edited the associated
RePUBlic Readings chapbook series published by Walleah
Press. She is a poetry editor for Famous Reporter and
is young persons' liaison officer for the Fellowship of Australian
Writers' (FAW) Tasmanian branch.
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Liz
Winfield