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- 2013 photograph of Bella Li by Nicholas Walton-Healey is held in the State Library of Victoria
- Bella Li on LinkedIn
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Bella Li (born 1983) is a Chinese-born Australian poet. Li's visual poetry collection Argosy was the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Poetry Prize, 2018 and the winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry).
Li was born in China in 1983. When she was three she and parents migrated to Australia. Li has an Arts/Law degree from the University of Melbourne. [1] In 2020 she received a PhD from the same university for her thesis, "The Forest, the Desert and the Road: Chronotopes of American Spaces in Twentieth-century Long-form Poetry; and a Creative Work, 'Hotel America'". [2]
Her poetry has appeared in Meanjin , [3] Cordite and other literary journals. [1] In 2017 Li was awarded a literary grant by the Australia Council. [4] She served as a judge for the 2020 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. [5] Li was a resident at the Creative Australia B.R. Whiting Studio in Rome in 2023. [6]
Bella Li is the author of Argosy (2017), Lost Lake (2018) and Theory of Colours (2021), published by Vagabond Press. In 2017, Argosy won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry). Li also won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry) for Argosy, the Judges' Comments noting that, 'Bella Li’s sophisticated handling of language, form, time and image offers a remarkable synthesis of European surrealism and an antipodean sensibility, via a Chinese–Australian history. This important contribution to Australian poetic imagination and traditions doubles as a Southern Hemisphere rewriting and re-imaging of world traditions.' [7]
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