Rachael Mead

Rachael Mead lives on a property in the Adelaide Hills with her husband, animals and an unwieldy collection of op shop overcoats. Her poetry has been published in journals such as Meanjin, Westerly, Going Down Swinging and the Australian Poetry Members Anthology. In 2011 she was a Friendly Street mentored poet with Mike Ladd and she spent three weeks in residence at Varuna, The Writers’ House in the Blue Mountains as the recipient of the Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship for Poetry.