Audrey Clarice Longbottom (c.1922 – 1986) was an Australian poet. [1]
Longbottom was born in Coramba, New South Wales, [1] around 1922. After leaving school aged fourteen, [2] she later attended the University of Wollongong as a mature student. She then began to write poetry and prose. [1]
Longbottom won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1980, and the Grenfell Henry Lawson Prize in 1981. [1] She died on 21 April 1986 at Cremorne, New South Wales. [2]