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, Damien Rice
Favourite Animation: Pingu, Ice Age 3
Favourite Books: The Portrait Of A Lady, Lolita, Bodhinyana, Teachings of Ajahn Chah, Poetics of Space
Favourite Movie: Pulp Fiction, Paris Texas
My Books: The Accidental Cage (Interactive Press, 2006): short-listed for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Poetry Without Borders (Picaro, 2008) ed Michelle Cahill
My poetry manuscript “Vishvarupa” was short-listed in the 2009 Alec Bolton prize, and a sequence of the poems were highly commended in the 2009 Blake Poetry Prize
Grants I’ve been awarded:
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
my mp3′Girlfriend…is coming when I figure where I’ve filed the mp3
