Lisa Collyer is the author of the poetry collections, Gold Digger (2025), shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Poetry Book of the Year Award 2026, and How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up (2023), shortlisted for The Dorothy Hewett Award and both published with Life Before Man Books. Her personal essay, Prolonged Exposure is published in the anthology, Women of a Certain Courage (2025) with Fremantle Press. Her poem, The Grape Pickers was short-listed for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize (2025). She recently was an artist in residence at The National Trust of WA and Bundanon Art Museum. She is currently writing a literary novella on grief, booze, and jazz.