Steve Armstrong

Steve Armstrong lives in Newcastle, where he runs his own practice as as a counsellor/coach, when he's not writing. He won the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize 2015 and has shortlisted for other major prizes, including the Ron Pretty Poetry Prize, Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize, and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. His poems can be found in Notes for Translators, 2012 (ASM); Australian Love Poems, 2013 (Inkerman & Blunt); A Slow Combusting Hymn: Poetry from and about Newcastle and the Hunter Region, 2014 (ASM); and Metamorphic: 21st Century Poets Respond to Ovid, 2017 (Recent Work Press).