Biography Mark Tredinnick
Poet, essayist and writing teacher Mark Tredinnick lives in Burradoo in the Highlands south-west of Sydney. His books include The Little Red Writing Book (published in the US and the UK as Writing Well: the Essential Guide), The Land’s Wild Music and A Place on Earth. The Blue Plateau – a landscape memoir he has been writing for some years – is forthcoming in 2009. He is currently working on a volume of poems and a book about the consolations of literature in a frantic age.
Mark has edited several collections of Australian writing, some with a landscape focus and each published as a special issue of a literary journal. These include Where Waters Meet (Manoa18:2, with Larissa Behrendt and Barry Lopez), Watermarks (Southerly 64:2, with Nicolette Stasko) and Being True to the Earth (PAN 4, with Kate Rigby).
His writing has appeared in Best Australian Essays, Island, Manoa, Mascara, Orion, PAN, Southerly and other journals and newspapers. His essays, criticism and poems have been published in chapbooks and anthologies and he writes regularly for The Bulletin. His honours include the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2007), Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize (2005), Calibre Essay Prize (2008), and Wildcare Nature Writing Prize (2005). He has been shortlisted for the Australian Book Review Poetry Prize and Broadway Poetry Prize among others. He has also done writer residencies in Hawaii, Alaska and on the New South Wales coast. He talks and teaches widely on writing, landscape, justice and ecology. Once upon a time he was a lawyer.
Mark Tredinnick holds a doctorate in Literature and Ecology and co-founded ASLE-ANZ (the Association for the Study of Literature & Environment – ANZ) in 2003.
Bibliography
The Little Red Writing Book
A Place on Earth
The Land’s Wild Music