Thom Sullivan is a writer, editor, and reviewer of poetry. His book of poems, CARTE BLANCHE (Vagabond Press), won the 2017-18 Noel Rowe Poetry Award and the 2020 Mary Gilmore Award, for the best first book of poems published in Australia in 2019. His poems have appeared in a range of books and journals, including Australian Book Review, Australian Love Poems, Australian Poetry Anthology, The Best Australian Poems 2014 and 2015, Best of Australian Poems 2024 and 2025, and Living Systems: Poetry from Asia Pacific. His reviews have appeared in Plumwood Mountain and Cordite Poetry Review. He’s been a featured writer at Adelaide Writers’ Week (2016), and SAETA’s Meet the Writers Festival (2016, 2017, and 2018). He grew up in Wistow/Bugle Ranges in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. He studied Arts and Law (w/Hons) at Adelaide University, and Social Science at Swinburne University, Melbourne. He lives in Adelaide.
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