Amelia Walker
Amelia Walker (she/her) lives and writes on the lands of the Kaurna people. She has published five books of poetry, most recently, Alogopoiesis (Gazebo Books, 2023). Amelia is co-editor of Ludic Inquiries into Power and Pedagogy: How Games Play Us (Eds Walker, Grimmett & Black, Routledge, 2025) and author of Reading and Writing for Change: Theories and Tools for Confronting Power (forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in 2025). Amelia is passionate about the capacities of poetry and literature to facilitate connections across cultures and to bridge geographical distances. From 2022-2023 she co-facilitated Invisible Walls, a literary exchange between Korean and Australian poets funded by the Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF), the outcomes of which are freely available as a Cordite Poetry Review e-chapbook: http://cordite.org.au/content/chapbooks-features/invisible/ She has also co-facilitated literary exchanges between Indian and Australian poets, which resulted in special issues of TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses (vol. 24, special issue no. 60) and Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry (vol. 5, no. 2).
Member Since: 6/9/2025
Country: Australia
Identity: Writer, Academic
Workplace: University