Amanda Anastasi is a Melbourne poet who has been published as locally as Prahran’s Artists’ Lane walls to The Massachusetts Review in Boston. Her debut poetry collection was 2012 and other poems and she recently co-authored The Silences with Robbie Coburn (Eaglemont Press, 2016). She is the recipient of the 2017 Words in Winter Trentham Contemporary Poetry Prize, and a two-time winner of the Williamstown Literary Festival’s Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize.