Eunice Andrada is a Filipina poet, educator, and cultural worker. Her debut poetry collection Flood Damages (Giramondo Publishing, 2018) won the Anne Elder Award and was a finalist for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Dame Mary Gilmore Award. Described by poet Ellen van Neerven as ‘one of the most important poetry releases in years,’ her second poetry collection TAKE CARE (Giramondo Publishing 2021) has gained many honours as a finalist for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, Stella Prize, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Eunice has performed her poetry on diverse international stages, including the UN Climate Conference in Paris, Sydney Opera House, and the Parliament House of New South Wales. Her previous work has been awarded the John Marsden & Hachette Australia Prize (2014). Her other works have earned honours from the Fair Australia Prize (2018) and Maningning Miclat Poetry Award (2021), among others.

Eunice was a recent BR Whiting Fellow in Rome (2023). She has also been awarded residencies and fellowships from Banff Centre for Arts in Canada and Spoken Word for the World in France. Her notable performances include events during the Richesse des Langues Festival (Montreal), Ubud International Writers and Readers Festival (Bali), and 100 Thousand Poets for Change (Quezon City). As part of Richesse des Langues, her poetry was translated into French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish and Czech and performed by poets from around the world. In 2020, her poetry was exhibited in the Museum of Sydney for the exhibition A Thousand Words.

For her work in ecopoetics, she was awarded the Australian Poetry & NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship (2018) in Northern Italy. During this fellowship, she joined marine scientists, architects, and designers in crafting scientific and artistic responses to the unique waterways of Val Taleggio. In 2020, she served as Editor of Writing Water: Rain, River, Reef, an anthology released through Red Room Poetry. Her ecopoetry is studied in schools and universities around the world.

In 2021, she produced and facilitated a series of free online Pinoy Ecopoetics workshops for Filipino writers, artists, and thinkers around the world. These workshops encouraged participants to interrogate the literary terrain of popular ecopoetics, which has long been dominated by colonial, anthropocentric perspectives on lands and waters. These monthly online gatherings allowed space for radical inter-community collaboration as participants contributed to the vast ecosystem of Filipino ecopoetics.

She has been awarded grants from Australia Council for the Arts, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Sidney Myer Foundation, Writing Victoria, and Create NSW.

In 2021, she served as a Judge for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (2021) and the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Century Club Citywide Poetry Award (2021). She is currently part of the Editorial Board for the ecopoetics journal Plumwood Mountain.

As a lyricist, she has collaborated with celebrated composer Andrée Greenwell for Listen to Me, a response to gendered violence in Australia. She has also collaborated with composer and musician Del Lumanta for a music and poetry album meditating on water memory, Echolalia & Other Poems.

As an organizer, she has produced programs for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Red Room Poetry, and The Digital Sala Virtual Filipinx Literary Festival. In 2020, she was honoured with an Adhika Award for her work in poetry and community arts programming for Filipino communities. Since 2021, she has helped organize community programs for libraries on unceded Gadigal land and has worked in various roles in libraries, including as Children’s Librarian and as Youth Librarian.

Of Ilonggo roots, Eunice was born in the Philippines and raised moving between Iloilo and Parañaque, Manila. She currently lives on unceded Gadigal land.