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Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane, Australia. Her first book, The Agonist (UQP 2017), won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2018 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Her second book, The Exclusion Zone, is forthcoming from University of Queensland Press in 2023.
Shastra holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts in Writing and English Literature, First Class Honours and a University Medal in Creative Writing, a Master of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing, and a PhD in Creative Writing from The University of Queensland. articles and interviewsContact Magazine: Writing the next chapter by Michael Jones
The Courier Mail: Meet Australian Literature Society gold medalist Shastra Deo Express Media Toolkits: Modes of Ekphrasis: Fandoms, Pop Culture and Poetry with Shastra Deo Hello Poet: Episode 1: Shastra Deo Liminal: Interview #68—Shastra Deo by Sumudu Samarawickrama Messenger's Booker: The Agonist—Shastra Deo Poetry Says: Ep 159. Shastra Deo: Pressure, persona & the ‘I’ The Wheeler Centre: Working with Words Writers Victoria: Shastra Deo on writing The Agonist Writing Queensland: Artist Spotlight—Shastra Deo |