Paul Hetherington has published numerous poetry books, most recently Palace of Memory: An Elegy (RWP, 2019) and Moonlight on Oleander: Prose Poems (UWAP, 2018). He has won or been shortlisted for more than 20 national and international awards and competitions and undertook an Australia Council Residency at the BR Whiting Studio in Rome in 2015-16. Paul is Professor of Writing at the University of Canberra, head of the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI), and one of the founding editors of the international online journal Axon: Creative Explorations. He founded the International Prose Poetry Group in 2014.