ABOUT 

Benjamin Dodds grew up in the NSW Riverina and studied at the University of Sydney.

 

He is the author of two previous collections, Regulator (Puncher & Wattmann Poetry, 2014) and Airplane Baby Banana Blanket (Recent Work Press, 2020), the latter of which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award in 2021 and also for the international Poetry Book Award. Benamin’s third collection, The Ease of Eggs, is forthcoming from 5 Islands Press in August of 2025. His work has been published widely, appearing in the pages of Rabbit, Meanjin, Southerly, Best Australian Poems, and Best Australian Science Writing, and broadcast on Radio National.

 

He has judged the Quantum Words Science Poetry Competition and the Val Vallis Award, and has been a poetry reader for Overland. Off the page, Benjamin has worked as a laboratory technician with the NSW Department of Agriculture, spent time as a clerk in a video store, taught English and Italian at the secondary school level, and, for nearly two decades, has been a proud public primary school teacher.