Paul Hetherington is a distinguished poet and Professor Emeritus at the University of Canberra, Australia. Among his 49 creative and critical books, edited books, chapbooks and artist books, and numerous scholarly chapters and articles, he has previously published 18 full-length collections of poetry, including Sleeplessness (Pierian Springs Press, 2023), Ragged Disclosures (Recent Work Press, 2022) and Her One Hundred and Seven Words (MadHat Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in more than 70 anthologies and has won or been nominated for over 50 national and international awards and competitions, including Pushcart Prize nominations. He won the inaugural The Marion Halligan Award (2024) for Sleeplessness and the 2021 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize. He is co-founding editor of the international online journal Axon: Creative Explorations, and he founded International Poetry Studies in the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at his university in 2013. He founded the international Prose Poetry Project in 2014. He also worked in the cultural sector, most notably for the National Library of Australia influential quarterly humanities and literary journal Voices (1991-97). Paul chaired the Australian Capital Territory's Cultural Council (2005-13) and the ACT Public Art Panel (2006-11) and in these roles instigated numerous arts and cultural initiatives, including the development and delivery of the first comprehensive policy and action framework for public art in the ACT. He has edited eleven volumes, including co-editing with Distinguished Professor Cassandra Atherton the international Alcatraz (Gazebo Books, 2022); The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry (MadHat Press, 2021); and the definitive Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne University Press, 2020). With Cassandra Atherton he co-authored the authoritative Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020).