Ann Vickery is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She is the author of three poetry collections: Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist’s Care Pack (Vagabond Press, 2021); Devious Intimacy (Hunter Publishers, 2015); and The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (Vagabond Press, 2014). She is also the author of Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry (Salt, 2007) and Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (Wesleyan University Press, 2000). She co-edited Poetry and the Trace (Puncher and Wattmann, 2013) and co-authored The Intimate Archive: Journeys through Private Papers (National Library of Australia, 2009). She has been editor-in-chief of HOW2, an online journal of innovative women’s poetry and scholarship, and poetry editor of Puncher and Wattmann. She is currently series editor of Palgrave’s Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.