Bio Note

Antonia Hildebrand’s first published short story appeared in Downs Images and in ‘Woman's Day' Summer Reading' and she has since been widely published in journals, magazines and anthologies in Australia as well as Britain and the USA and Ireland. She has contributed to ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph program. Many of her short stories have been broadcast by Radio 91.3FM Yeppoon. She won the USQ Library Poetry Prize (University of Southern Qld Library Poetry Prize in 1998) and the FAW Marjorie Barnard Award in 1999 for a short story, ‘To Breathe’. In 2023  she  won the 'Studio' prize for poetry with 'Finding the Fanbelt in the Farmer's Shed'. She is the author of nine books, ranging from biography to autobiography, essays, poetry, short fiction through to novels. Her novel, ‘The Darkened Room’ was published by Ginninderra Press in 2022. A poetry collection, 'Broken Dolls' was launched 22nd March 2024 at Impress Printmaker's Studio and Gallery.