Rico Craig

Rico Craig is a poet, writer and workshop facilitator. His poetry has been awarded or shortlisted for many local and international prizes including the Montreal Poetry Prize, the Moth Poetry Prize, and the Val Vallis, Newcastle, and Woorilla poetry prizes. Bone Ink (UWAP), his first poetry collection, was winner of the 2017 Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2018. His most recent collections Our Tongues Are Songs (2021) and Nekhau (2022) are published by Recent Work Press. He is currently working on a verse novel for young adults called Flying Hearts which explores friendship, graffiti and class conflict.