Lucy Dougan (born 1966) is an Australian poet who began publication in 1998.

Early life and education

Dougan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1966.^[1]

In 2009, she completed her PhD thesis at the University of Western Australia in dual format ‘’On the Circumvesuviana’’ (poetry) and ‘’The Vesuvian Imaginary: The Woman's Journey to Naples in Three Texts’’ (dissertation).^[2] Her thesis formed the basis of her 2012 publication, On the Circumvesuviana.

Works

Poetry

• Dougan, Lucy (1998), Memory shell, Five Islands Press Associates, ISBN 978-0-86418-506-8
• — (2008), White clay, Giramondo Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-920882-32-7
• — (2011), Against lawns : and other poems, Picaro Press, retrieved 16 May 2018
• — (2012), On the Circumvesuviana, Picaro Press, ISBN 978-1-921691-27-0
• —; Australia Council (sponsoring body.) (2015), The guardians, Artarmon NSW Giramondo Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-922146-75-5

As editor

• Zwicky, Fay (2017), The collected poems of Fay Zwicky, Dougan, Lucy, (editor.); Dolin, Tom, (editor.), UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-74258-932-9

Awards and recognition

• Memory Shell won the 2000 Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry at the ASAL Awards^[3]
• White Clay won the 2006 Alec Bolton Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, ACT Poetry Prize^[4]
• The Guardians was shortlisted for the 2015 Judith Wright Calanthe Award^[5]
• The Guardians was shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier's Awards: Prize for Poetry^[6]
• The Guardians won the 2016 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards — Poetry^[7]