{"id":221,"date":"2014-03-05T13:41:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2014-09-03T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:52:14","slug":"petra-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Petra White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PetraWhite.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61\" src=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PetraWhite-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"PetraWhite\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PetraWhite-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PetraWhite-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Petra White was born in Adelaide in 1975, and lives in Melbourne, where she works in a government department and is studying for a Master of Public Policy and Management. Her first book of poetry,\u00a0<em>The Incoming Tide,<\/em>\u00a0was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier\u2019s Prize and the ACT Poetry Prize.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Simplified World<\/em>\u00a0was shortlisted for the 2011 Judith Wright Prize in the A.C.T Awards; and was shortlisted also for the John Bray Prize in the 2011 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.\u00a0Her most recent book<em> A Hunger,<\/em> was published in August 2014<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Simplified World<\/em>\u00a0also shared the annual Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for 2010 with two other books,\u00a0<em>Patience, Mutiny<\/em>\u00a0by L K Holt<em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Phantom Limb<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0David Musgrave,\u00a0all of them published by JLP. In the Prize\u2019s distinguished sixty-four-year history, this is the first time that three books have been honoured together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petra White was born in Adelaide in 1975, and lives in Melbourne, where she works in a government department and is studying for a Master of Public Policy and Management. Her first book of poetry,\u00a0The Incoming Tide,\u00a0was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier\u2019s Prize and the ACT Poetry Prize. The Simplified World\u00a0was shortlisted for the 2011 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnleonardpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}