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Delys Bird
BornKalgoorlie, Western Australia
OccupationEditor of Westerly magazine
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
SubjectLiterary criticism

Delys Bird is a Western Australian writer, academic and editor. She has been the editor of literary journal Westerly since the early 1990s.

Education and career

Bird was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. After living in Sydney for a period, Bird’s tertiary education began as a mature age student at the University of Western Australia in the 1970s. She began teaching at the university in 1980 and joined the faculty of Arts in 1985, where she was a member of the English Department as well as director of the Centre for Women’s Studies until her retirement in 2003.

Bird has been editor of Western Australian literary journal Westerly since the early 1990s. She had previously served as the journal's poetry editor. Bird has also conducted extensive research in Australian literature, with a focus on women writers and feminist theory.

Selected publications

Books

  • Bird, Delys; Walker, Brenda (1991). Elizabeth Jolley: new critical essays. Moss Vale, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 9780207170607.
  • Bird, Delys (1993). Killing women: rewriting detective fiction. Pymble, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 9780207179488.
  • Bird, Delys; Dixon, Robert; Lee, Christopher (2001). Authority and influence: Australian literary criticism 1950-2000. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 9780702232039.
  • Bird, Delys; Were, Wendy; White, Terri-Ann (2003). Future imaginings: sexualities and genders in the new millennium. Crawley, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press for the Westerly Centre. ISBN 9781920694074.

Journals

Awards

In 2011, Bird was the recipient of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’s A.A Philips award for her long period of excellence in the editing of Westerly.

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