Jen Crawford is a Professor of Creative Writing within the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. She has previously lived and taught in Aotearoa/New Zealand and in Singapore. Her work focuses on the poetics of place, ecological imagination and on cross-cultural engagements in various literary contexts. Her poetry collections include Bad Appendix (Titus Books), Koel (Cordite Books) and A General Image of the Whole Countryside Recovering from the Effects of Winter (forthcoming from Puncher and Wattmann).