About
Hi,
I’m Michelle, an Indo-Australian muse. I write poetry, fiction, essays and, periodically, I like to blog. I like art, dance and travel. I’m most in balance when I practice yoga and vipassana. I believe there are four noble truths.
My favourite music: Madonna, Vertigo, Pet Shop Boys, Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Jewel, Bjork, Damien Rice, Natalie Merchant, Tracey Chapman, The Necks, Ian Van Dahl, Portishead
Favourite Animation: Pingu, Ice Age 3
Favourite Books: The Portrait Of A Lady, Wuthering Heights, Lolita, Perfume, Heart of Darkness, Bodhinyana, Teachings of Ajahn Chah, Poetics of Space. Crime and Punishment, Refusing Heaven, Franny and Zooey, North, The Rustle of Language, Maps For Lost Lovers, Wolf Notes
Favourite Movie: Pulp Fiction, Paris Texas, The Piano, The Monkey’s Mask, Brokeback Mountain, Candy, Bright Star
PUBLISHED BOOKS:
The Accidental Cage (Interactive Press, 2006): short-listed for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Poetry Without Borders (Picaro, 2008) ed Michelle Cahill
Ophelia in Harlem, (Kilmog Press 2010) limited edition chapbook
“Vishvarupa,” my poetry manuscript is forthcoming with Five Islands Press in 2011.
GRANTS:
2008 Copyright Agency Limited Professional Development Grant
2008 Australian Society of Authors Mentorship in Poetry
2009 Australia Council Residency Grant in Fiction at Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi
AWARDS:
2010 Val Vallis Award
2009 Blake Poetry Prize: Highly Commended
2009 Alec Bolton Prize: Shortlisted
2008 Inverawe Poetry Prize: Highly Commended
2007 Judith Wright Prize: Shortlisted
