Anupama Pilbrow

Born in New York City (1993) to Indian and Australian parents, Anupama Pilbrow migrated, with her family, to Australia (2006) as a teenager where she completed her secondary education. She studied creative writing and English literature at The University of Melbourne in 2014, before undertaking graduate studies in mathematics.

Pilbrow began publishing poetry during her undergraduate degree and joined the editorial team of Melbourne-based creative journal The Suburban Review in 2014, before becoming co-editor in 2016. Her poetry has largely been influenced by Indian poets writing in English, such as Kamala Das, A.K. Ramanujan and Nissim Ezekiel, and by traditions in Indian folk tales. Her manuscript the ravage space, a collection of poems aiming to “reframe pluralism as the cultural norm”, was shortlisted for the 2014 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize, before winning the Dinny O’Hearn Fellowship in 2016.

Pilbrow’s poems, essays, and reviews have been published in Australian and international journals and anthologies such as Cordite Poetry Review, Rabbit Poetry Journal, JEASA,  Southerly, Off the Coast, Contemporary Australian Feminist Poets, and Meanjin. She regularly performs her poetry, and speaks on her work as an editor, a writer, and a performer.
Body Poems, deciBels series 3, Vagabond Press, Sydney, 2018.

Links
Poems
'homology'
‘my mother told this story of the white girl in the library'
The poet performing at Red Dirt Poetry Festival 2016

Interviews
Matthew Hall, An Animating Impulse, in EASA
The poet on 'the moments in between' in Poetry Says

Essays
Vital Literary Genealogies in Southern Crossings
The Poet’s Guide to Mathematics in Meanjin Quarterly