Graeme Dixon (1955– 2010) was born in Perth, Western Australia. Between the ages of ten and fourteen he lived in a Salvation Army Boys Home, before being expelled from school. He was in and out of reformatories and at sixteen ended up in Fremantle Prison where is spent most of the next nine years. His first poetry collection, Holocaust Island, was written in prison and was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989. Graeme Dixon (1955– 2010) was born in Perth, Western Australia. Between the ages of ten and fourteen he lived in a Salvation Army Boys Home, before being expelled from school. He was in and out of reformatories and at sixteen ended up in Fremantle Prison where is spent most of the next nine years. His first poetry collection, Holocaust Island, was written in prison and was the inaugural winner of the David Unaipon Award in 1989.