Rico Craig
Rico Craig is a poet, writer and workshop facilitator. His poetry has been awarded or shortlisted for many prizes including the Montreal Poetry Prize, the Moth Poetry Prize, and the Val Vallis, Newcastle, and Woorilla poetry prizes. Bone Ink (UWAP), his first poetry collection, was winner of the 2017 Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2018. His most recent collections Our Tongues Are Songs (2021) and Nekhau (2022) are published by Recent Work Press. His forthcoming verse novel for young adults – Flying Hearts – explores friendship, graffiti and class conflict, it was highly commended in the 2025 Spiers Prize and will be released by Bakers Lane Books in 2027.