Amanda Anastasi

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Gender	Female
Occupation	Writer & Musician
Location	Melbourne, Victoria
Introduction	After completing her arts degree at Deakin University, Amanda shed her former conservative self to embrace independent thought. She started a piano tuition business, Virtuoso Music, through which she teaches up to sixty students a week, runs recitals and performs at the occasional function. Although she had majored in writing at uni, it wasn't until 2009/10 that Amanda threw herself into the wonderful world of words. In 2009 she was surprised to find herself shortlisted in the Page Seventeen Poetry Competition. This gave birth to an insatiable poetry monster, and Amanda subsequently had poems published in many Australian and international anthologies and magazines. She was even more astonished to find herself the back-to-back winner of the 2010 and 2011 Seagull Poetry Prize at the Williamstown Literary Festival, with poems concerned with asylum seeker issues. Amanda often drops in at Passionate Tongues or Westword to perform her work. To contact email: aanastasi78@dodo.com.au