Shouting at the Storm

Nelson was born in Bundaberg, Queensland in 1970. He began writing and performing poetry in Perth in the late 1990s. In 2001 Nelson moved to Melbourne. After a long writing hiatus, in 2010 he had a poem published in the journal page seventeen. He has since been a finalist in 2011 Poetry Idol and the 2011 Dorothy Leadbetter Poetry Cup and was the winner of the 2011 Eastern Regional Libraries National Poetry Prize (as well as having a poem highly commended in the same competition).