The poet Caroline Caddy was born in Western Australia in 1944, and spent part of her childhood in both the United States and Japan. After finishing school, she worked as a dental nurse with the Road Dental Unit.

She has won the 1990 Western Australian Week Literary Award for poetry, the 1991 National Book Council Banjo Award for Poetry, and the 1992 National Book Council award for poetry.

Bibliography

• Singing at Night (1980)
• Letters From the North (1985)
• Beach Plastic (1989)
• Conquistadors (1991)
• Antarctica (1996)
• Working Temple (1996)
• Editing the Moon (1999)