Tim Heffernan is a Wollongong poet and recipient of the 2016 joanne burns prize for prose poetry and micro-fiction. His work has been published in numerous Australian journals and anthologies. He collaborated with Iraqi poet Haider Catan in translating the Iraqi anthology Poetry in the Minefield for Verity La’s “Discoursing Diaspora” project, as well as assisting with the translation of poems for The Red Room Company’s Lyrikline Collaboration with Literaturwerkstatt Berlin.