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Catherine Bateson | |
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| Born | 1960 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality |  Australian |
Catherine Bateson (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian writer.
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Catherine Bateson | |
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| Born | 1960 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
Catherine Bateson (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian writer.
Born in Sydney in 1960, Bateson grew up in a second-hand bookshop in Brisbane. She attained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, with a major in art history. [1]
Her first published novel was Painted Love Letters, a portrait of a family coping with death. She has published two volumes of poetry, and three verse novels for young adults using a variety of poetic forms including haiku, free verse, free renga and acrostic.
Bateson has taught creative writing for the past thirteen years, and has been a guest writer at many schools. Her work has been read on radio and featured on television. She has also appeared at various poetry and writers festivals throughout Australia. She coordinated La Mama Poetica at La Mama Theatre in Melbourne.
Bateson is the mother of two children, Alasdair, born in 1991 and Helen, born 1992.
She currently teaches creative writing at GippsTafe, Victoria and lives in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria.
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