AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS & WRITERS FOR PEACE
HONEY UNFREEZES by Kerry Scuffins
[Above] Photo of Kerry Scuffins by Pamela Sidney, 1989.
Kerry Scuffins
About the Poet Kerry Scuffins
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Kerry Scuffins was born in Canberra in 1958. She grew up in Ballarat in Victoria. Scrambled through various misadventures to H.S.C., then left home and worked as a nursing aide, then a strapper ... ventured to Geelong for a B.A. at the only university with a creative writing course she could find, Deakin. A few years & jobs & relationships later, she met and married Gary, and almost immediately had two step-children, Renée and Nathan. Melanie, their sister, followed in 1984, but lived only four days due to a chronic heart deformity of No Known Cause. Separated in 1987 but happily still seeing a bit of my family. Spent the last eleven years in various inner city suburbs of Melbourne; currently in transit again. Have taught at various high schools (Dip. Ed., 1983); other employments include public servant, brickies' labourer, and salesperson - all usually terminated by efforts to Live On Art and taken up again in the cause of Simply Living. |
[Above] Photo of Kerry Scuffins by Pamela Sidney, 1989.
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