I am pleased to announce that Lucy Van has joined the Cordite Poetry Review masthead as Short Reviews Editor. She will assume duties near the end of 2015, starting with all new short reviews commissioned at that time.

Lucy Van is a poetry critic and interdisciplinary researcher living in Melbourne. She is completing a book about global postcolonial poetry, and commencing a collaborative research project on colonial women photographers in the Asia-Pacific region. She has previously worked as an editor for Peril Magazine and Mascara Literary Review. She lectures in poetry at the University of Melbourne.