Mark Tredinnick
Mark Tredinnick is a poet, essayist, and writing teacher living in Burradoo, the highlands outside of Sydney in Australia's southeast region. His books, focused alternately on writing, landscape, justice, and ecology, have been distributed and sold in Australia, the United States, and throughout the United Kingdom.Mark's writing has appeared in Best Australian Essays, Island, Manoa, Mascara, Orion, PAN, Southerly. He wrote regularly for The Bulletin, one of Australia's premier news magazines, prior to its recent closing. Mark's honors include the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2007), the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize (2005) and the Wildcare Nature Writing Prize (2005), and residencies with the Pacific Writers' Network (Hawaii), the Island Institute (Sitka, Alaska), and the Camden Haven Pilot Station. Mark lectures and teaches widely on writing, landscape, justice and ecology. For over a decade, he has run writing programs at the University of Sydney and at writers' centers in Australia and the United States.