Tricia Dearborn is an award-winning poet, writer and editor with a BSc (Hons) Biochemistry and a Master of Arts. In 2019 she published Autobiochemistry, named for a long autobiographical sequence in which each poem links to an element of the periodic table, with UWAP and the chapbook She Reconsiders Life on the Run with IPSI. Her previous poetry collections include The Ringing World and Frankenstein’s Bathtub which were released in 2012 and 2001 respectively.
She has been widely published in literary journals and is represented in anthologies including The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry in 2020, Contemporary Australian Poetry in 2016, Australian Poetry since 1788 in 2011 and The Best Australian Science Writing 2019. She inaugurated and was a judge of the Quantum Words Science Poetry Competition in 2018. In 2019, she was a Poet in Residence at Canberra’s Poetry on the Move festival and a judge of the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. She was the guest editor of Rabbit 31: The Science Issue which was published in 2020