Mark Tredinnick

Dr Mark Tredinnick OAM is a celebrated poet, essayist, and teacher. Since 2003, he has published over two hundred works—poems, essays, reviews, papers, and books. For twenty-five years, he’s taught poetry and expressive writing at the University of Sydney, where he was poet in residence in 2018.

 

In 2020, Mark was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education. His other honours include two State Premiers’ Literature Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron Pretty Poetry Prizes, two Premiers’ Literature Awards, and the Calibre Essay Prize. The Blue Plateau, his landscape memoir, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Prize.

 

Mark has published five volumes of poetry, the latest of which is A Beginners' Guide, published by Birdfish in 2022. His many other works of poetry and prose include Walking Under Water, A Gathered Distance, Almost Everything I Know, Egret in a Ploughed Field, Bluewren Cantos, Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, The Little Red Writing Book and The Little Green Grammar Book. Mark is the Managing Editor of Oystercatcher Enterprises.