Philip Neilsen

Philip Max Neilsen is an Australian poet, fiction writer for adults, young adults and children, and editor. He is professor of creative writing at the Queensland University of Technology and teaches at the University of Queensland.

Neilsen was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. His grandparents and great grandparents were emigrants from Norway, Scotland, England and Germany. He attended Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland where he gained honours, masters and doctoral degrees in English and taught for nine years. He founded the creative writing program at the Queensland University of Technology in 1997. He has been a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Previously, he has been Chair of the Queensland Writers Centre and Chair of PEN Australia North. Neilsen is married to legal ethicist and writer Mhairead MacLeod.

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