About

Lesh Karan is a poet, writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Best of Australian Poems, Cordite, Island, Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit, Strange Horizons and other publications. She won the 2023 Liquid Amber Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2022 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. A former pharmacist, Lesh holds a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne, and a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing from RMIT. Of Indo Fijian descent, she lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on unceded Wurundjeri land.