Bio
Leah Kaminsky is a writer and a doctor. She was awarded the Eleanor Dark Flagship 
Fellowship for Fiction in 2007 for her novel The Waiting Room, which she is currently completing. She was the recipient of a Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the Shaindy Rudoff School of Creative Fiction, Bar Ilan University in 2008, a creation grant from the Victorian Ministry of the Arts 2008, an Emerging Writer's Grant from the Literature Board of the Australian Council of the Arts in 2008, commended in the Max Harris Poetry Awards 2008, and was second prize winner in the John Shaw Neilson Poetry award 2007. She was chosen to participate in the Maskilim Project at the Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Culture at Monash University to work on a translation of the poet Melekh Ravitch's Diaries of his 1933 trip to the Kimberlys in Australia. She has published widely in newspapers and literary magazines, including The Age, Quadrant, Mattoid, Voices, Fine Line, Divan, Poetry Australia and she is a regular columnist for the Australian Jewish News.
She is the author of three books: Spilt Milk ed Judith Rodriguez & Antoni Jach- RMIT Poets; ABC Guide to Poisons - Houghtom Mifflin; Your Child's Heath co-author Prof Frank Oberklaid - Hardie Grant Books (4th edition). She studied creative writing/poetry with Judith Rodriguez, Gerald Murnane, Carmel Bird, Antoni Jach, and William Packard (NYU) and holds a medical degree from Monash University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts (Literature and Philosophy) from Deakin University. She also holds a Diploma of Professional Writing from RMIT.
Copyright 2008, LEAH KAMINSKY