Maggie Shapley

Dr Maggie Shapley is a Canberra scholar and poet whose poems have been published in various literary journals and anthologies including The Best Australian Poetry 2004 (UQP) and the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (MUP 2020). Her first poetry collection, Proof, was published by Recent Work Press in 2017. Her latest manuscript of poems, Fruits of Exile, forms part of her PhD thesis on the publication of Australian female poets, focusing on Gwen Harwood and Margaret Scott.