Binalong’s Lizz Murphy writes in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry and often incorporates found text.

Lizz’ ninth poetry title The Wear of My Face (Spinifex Press), won the Poetry (Big Press) 2021 category in the ACT Writers’ ACT Notable Awards announced in July. Spinifex Press also published Two Lips Went Shopping (2000) and her popular international anthology Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (1996, 2000). Her fourteen titles also include: Shebird (PressPress), Walk the Wildly (Picaro/Ginninderra) and Stop Your Cryin (Island). Lizz is widely published in anthologies and journals in Australia and overseas.

Visual art, her first passion, has recently returned in the form of small art & text works. She was part of the One Sky Many Stories living studios (coordinated by Jenni Kemarre Martiniello) at Belconnen Arts Centre in 2018. As a follow-up, Lizz instigated the Postcards from the Sky living studio which resulted in a group exhibition at BAC early 2019 and continues as a small collective of NSW and Canberra visual arts/writing creatives. In the 1970s she was heavily involved in community arts in the Wollongong region.

Lizz also teaches Tai Chi. Her previous employment includes the inaugural NSW Poetry Development Officer, Executive Officer/Regional Arts Development Officer for Southern Tablelands Arts Inc, Marketing Manager for Aboriginal Studies Press and a freelance publicist for independent publishers. She was once upon a time a shop assistant but her worst job was cleaning bricks. She is originally from Belfast.