Fiona Wright

Fiona Wright (born 1983) is an Australian poet and critic. Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays in Hunger (2015) is a collection of ten essays that detail the author's own experience with anorexia. Small Acts of Disappearance won the 2016 Kibble Award, which recognises life writing by women writers, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. She completed a PhD at the Western Sydney University, Writing and Society Research Centre in 2016. Wright's debut collection of poetry, Knuckled (2011) was awarded the Dame Mary Gilmore Award in 2012.

Fiona Wright grew up in Menai, NSW. Wright has completed residencies including an Island of Residencies placement at the Tasmanian Writers' Centre in 2007. She received an Emerging Writers' Grant by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 2010. Her poems featured in the Black Inc. annual anthology of Best Australian Poems in 2015 and 2016.

• Knuckled Giramondo Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-920882-75-4
• Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays in Hunger Giramondo Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1-922146-93-9

Her poetry has also been published in the Age, the Australian’s Literary Review, Black Inc's Best Australian Poetry and in journals and anthologies in Australia, Asia and the USA.

"To The Children of Poets", Knuckled 2011.