Ann Vickery

Ann Vickery is a Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry (2024) and the co-editor (with Philip Mead) of The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry (2025). She is the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (2000) and Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (2007), and co-author (with Maryanne Dever and Sally Newman) of The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (2009). Modernism Beyond the Canon: Women Writers, Global Currents, and Local Value, co-authored with Deborah Pike, is in press with Bloomsbury. Ann is also the author of three poetry collections, most recently Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Care Pack (2021). She is currently working on a project investigating how literary reading may enhance our understandings of ageing and build stronger intergenerational connections in Australia.