Paul Hetherington lives in Canberra, Australia. He is the author of seven previous volumes of poetry, most recently the novel in verse, Blood and Old Belief, which was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. He won the 1996 Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award (for Shadow Swimmer) and a 2002 Chief Minister’s ACT Creative Arts Fellowship. He was founding editor of the National Library of Australia’s quarterly humanities and literary journal, Voices (1991-97), is a member of the Board of Australian Book Review and is a former poetry editor of The Canberra Times. He has been director of publishing at the National Library of Australia since 1994 and edited and introduced the final three volumes of the Library’s authoritative four-volume edition of the diaries of the artist Donald Friend.
