Robert Kenny

Robert Kenny is an Australian poet and historian. He has published widely on the history of religion and science, and is also the author of several volumes of poetry and fiction.

The Lamb Enters the Dreaming won the 2008 Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, the Victorian Premier’s History Prize, and the Australian Historical Association’s W. H. Hancock Prize.

He is Visiting Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University, and Honorary Associate in the School of Humanities, La Trobe University. He has previously been a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, and a Peter Blazey Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He lives in Redesdale, Victoria.