About.
Sophie Finlay is a visual artist and poet. She lives, works and creates on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Her poetry is published in multiple journals including Meanjin, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, Plumwood Mountain journal, and more. She has also been a finalist in several art prizes including the John Leslie Art Prize and the Salon des Refuses exhibition, Lethbridge Landscape Prize.
Sophie is a PhD candidate in literary studies and creative writing at Deakin University. Her research and creative work consider the possibilities for an ecopoetic lyric to raise awareness of anthropogenic devastations upon local and global ecologies, embody a corporeal reorientation to the webs of life, and promote connection between human and more-than-human worlds. Her first collection of poetry 'the terrarium' was published in 2024 with Flying Island Books the terrarium by Sophie Finlay - Flying Islands Pocket Poets Follow on: Sophie Finlay (@sophie_finlay_artpoetry) | Instagram |