Author | Poet
Libby Hathorn is a writer, poet and librettist. She has won numerous awards here and internationally, including the Centenary Medal, the Alice Award 2014, the Asher Peace Prize 2017, the Lady Cutler Award, 2020, and the ABIA Pixie O’Harris Award, 2022, for outstanding services to children’s literature.
Recent picture book No! Never! (Hachette Australia), with daughter Lisa, won the CBCA Early Childhood Children’s Picture Book of the Year, 2021. Her latest book is Mother Earth (Hachette Australia) 2023, poetry which celebrates our unique Australian environment. Two poetry collections, Shining City Sydney (Hathorn&Cummings), Pacific Ocean Press, and This is Us (Hathorn&Fell), National Library Australia, launched in 2025. Her verse novel Through a Glass Darkly is slated for 2026.
Libby lives and breathes poetry.