Jennifer Harrison has written eight books of poetry, most recently 'Anywhy' (Black Pepper 2018). Two new collections, 'Sideshow History' and 'Finials' will be published in 2024/2025. She manages The Dax Poetry Collection housed in the Dax Centre at the University of Melbourne and chairs the World Psychiatry Association’s Section for Art and Psychiatry. A third collection, near completion, 'After. Echoes', features poems that respond to the work of Irish poet, Eavan Boland (1944-2020). Among other awards, Jennifer has received the 2012 Christopher Brennan Award for sustained achievement in Australian poetry and most recently the 2023 International Troubadour Poetry Prize (UK).

Paul Hetherington has published 18 full-length collections of poetry, most recently Sleeplessness (Pierian Springs Press, US, 2023). His poetry has won or been nominated for over 40 national and international awards and competitions, including Pushcart Prize nominations and the 2021 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize. He founded International Poetry Studies in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra in 2013 and founded the international Prose Poetry Project in 2014. With Cassandra Atherton he co-authored Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020) and co-edited the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020).

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