Adam Aitken
Adam Aitken is a teacher, poet, and non-fiction writer, who was born in London, United Kingdom. He spent his early childhood in Thailand and Malaysia, before settling in Sydney, Australia. Winner of the 2021 Patrick White Award, he is the author of six full length collections of poetry, most recently ‘Revenants’ (2022) and ‘Archipelago’ (2018), which was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hawai’i, and Poet in Residence at the Keesing Studio in Paris in 2011. He co-edited ‘Contemporary Asian Australian Poets’ in 2013. His writing shows a deep interest in contemporary cultural issues, especially issues of identity and cultural hybridity. His memoir ‘One Hundred Letters Home’ (2016) was longlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Medal in 2017.