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Language
  
English

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Delys Bird

Subject
  
Literary criticism

Nationality
  
Australian


Occupation
  
Editor of Westerly magazine

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

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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.

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

  • Westerly (literary magazine), Editor 1990-present
  • Bird, Delys (2013). "The end of the road: Joseph Furphy and Tom Collins in Western Australia". Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literary Criticism, special issue: Joseph Furphy Centenary Issue. National Library of Australia. 13 (1).  Pdf.

    • 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.

    References

    Delys Bird Wikipedia
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