Koraly Dimitriadis is a writer, performer and bestselling, award-winning poet who creates film and theatre with her poetry. As the daughter of working-class migrants from postcolonial Cyprus, Koraly explores the human experience including political and feminist subjects such as single parenting, divorce, cultural/religious repression, violence against women and identity, with raw vulnerability, to shift narratives suppressing the marginalised. She is the author of the poetry books Love and Fk Poems (also translated into Greek), Shes Not Normal and Just Give Me The Pills, which won best book of Poetry (narrative) at American Book Fest 2024. Koraly is the author of the short story collection The Mother Must Die. Koraly has toured internationally with her poetry. Her recent poetry film, Yiayia mou (my grandmother), was a finalist for the Multicultural Film Festival and was streamed through SBS-on-demand. Koraly was the recipient of the UNESCO City of Literature residency. Her opinion articles and essays have been published widely across Australia with international publications in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Today show and Aljazeera.
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"Koraly Dimitriadis is a poet of the finest balance. She writes with the tenderness of a loving hand and a fist that smashes oppression," Tony Birch, bestselling author, White Girl, and Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature.