Bonny Cassidy

Bonny Cassidy is an Australian author of Irish and German descent who lives off-grid in a native forest in Central Victoria. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Chatelaine (Giramondo, 2017). She also co-edited Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (2016). She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at RMIT University in Melbourne and writes essays on Australian literature and culture. Her first nonfiction book, Monument, was announced as forthcoming in 2023. In late 2022 she was a resident at Watershed Studios in Galway, Ireland, where she worked on creative nonfiction about learning to know a forest and on the connected histories of Irish and Australian land enclosure and colonisation. Her essay on this subject was shortlisted for the 2023 Nature Writing Prize.