Cassandra Atherton Cassandra Atherton is one of the leading international scholars on prose poetry and an award-winning prose poet. She co-authored Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton UP, 2020) and co-edited the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne UP, 2020) and Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry (MadHat Press, 2023). She is currently co-authoring a book, Ekphrastic Poetry, for Princeton UP and writing a book of poetry on the atomic bomb with funding from the Australia Council.