Eunice Andrada

Eunice Andrada is a Filipina poet, educator, and organizer. Her debut poetry collection Flood Damages (Giramondo Publishing, 2018) won the Anne Elder Award and was a finalist for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. She has performed her poetry on diverse international stages, including the UN Climate Conference in Paris, Sydney Opera House, and the Parliament of New South Wales. Her previous works have been awarded the John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize (2014) and have been shortlisted for the Fair Australia Prize (2018). Through her work in ecopoetics, she was awarded the Australian Poetry & NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship (2018) in Northern Italy. As an organizer, she has produced community programs for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Red Room Poetry, and The Digital Sala Virtual Filipinx Literary Festival. She currently serves as a judge for the upcoming NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Century Club Citywide Poetry Award. Of Ilonggo heritage, she was born in the Philippines and raised moving between Iloilo and Manila. She migrated to Australia in 2012 and currently lives on unceded Gadigal land.