Draft:Hazel Smith (writer)

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Hazel Smith. is a poet, performer, new media artist and academic. She has published six volumes of poetry including The Erotics of Geography, Tinfish Press, 2008 (with accompanying CD Rom), Word Migrants, Giramondo, 2016, Ecliptical, ES-Press, Spineless Wonders, 2022 and Heimlich Unheimlich — with Sieglinde Karl-Spence —Apothecary Archive, 2024. She has published numerous collaborative performance and multimedia works, as well as performing and broadcasting her work extensively in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia. Two of her multimedia collaborations with Will Luers and Roger Dean have been published in the international Electronic Literature Organisation’s Collections 3 and 4. She is a founding member of the innovative sound and multimedia ensemble austraLYSIS. In 2018, together with Will Luers and Roger Dean, she was awarded first place in the ELO’s Robert Coover prize for their collaboration, novelling. In 2023 her collaboration with Will Luers and Roger Dean, Dolphins in the Reservoir, was shortlisted for the international New Media Writing Prize run by Bournemouth University, UK. Examples of academic studies on her work include

Hazel is an Emeritus Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University. She is the author of several academic books including Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara, Liverpool University Press, 2000; The Writing Experiment, Allen and Unwin, 2005 and The Contemporary Literature-Music Relationship: intermedia, voice, technology, cross-cultural exchange, Routledge, 2016. With Roger Dean she co-authored Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts since 1945, Routledge, 1997 and co-edited Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts, Edinburgh University Press, 2009. She is also a co-editor of the creative arts journal of online sound, text and image, soundsRite, based at Western Sydney University.