Bundanon

Ann-Marie Blanchard teaches at The University of Notre Dame in Fremantle, having taught in the United States for a decade.

In 2022 she won The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction. Her work has appeared in The Missouri Review, A Public Space, Adroit Journal, Palette Poetry, Meanjin Quarterly, Cordite Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

In Residence at Bundanon

My poetry manuscript Homebake is a blistering examination of faith, fecundity and fidelity, set against the backdrop of rural Australia. Homebake interrogates its very title: what concoctions are cooked up at home when drugs run dry? Multigenerational trauma and triumphs. Homebake is a love letter to family—an anthem of grit and kinship—an amen for all people who stand by their addicts, who fist-fight alongside their survivors, a transformative festivity of love.