title: Lesley Walter
text: # Lesley Walter
  
  Lesley Walter is an Australian poet. She holds a Master of Letters degree in Australian Literature from the University of Sydney, and is a past president of the Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. She lives in Sydney.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 2004 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
  
  ## Works
  
  * "Hyphenated Lives", Island, No.101, Winter 2005
  * Watermelon baby. Five Islands Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-86418-667-6.
  * Life Drawings. Walleah Press 2014. ISBN 978-1-877010-52-1
  
  ### Anthologies
  
  * Judith Beveridge; Martin Duwell; Bronwyn Lea, eds. (2006). The best Australian poetry 2006. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-3568-9.
  
  ### Non-fiction
  
  * The Natural Way to Better Birth and Bonding (Random House, 2000)
  