Chris Ringrose

Literature has always been a big part of Chris Ringrose’s life, so he’s loved being part of the Litfest since moving from the UK to Australia in 2012. Chris is a Research Associate in English at Monash University. His poetry has won awards in England, Canada and Australia, and he has published critical work on modern fiction, literary theory and children’s literature. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the book series Studies in World Literature, and is a poetry reviewer for the Australian Poetry Journal. His latest collection of poems is Palmistry (ICoE Press, 2019). Creative Lives, a collection of interviews with eighteen South Asian writers, was published in 2021 by Ibidem/Columbia University Press.