Dr Jen Crawford is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Canberra. Her critical work focuses on the poetics of place, ecological imagination, and on cross-cultural engagements in various literary contexts. She has authored eight poetry books and chapbooks, including Koel (Cordite Books, 2016) and Lichen Loves Stone (Tinfish Press, 2016). Read More She was co-editor and a collaborating translator of Poet to Poet: Contemporary Women Poets from Japan (Recent Work Press, 2017) with Rina Kikuchi, and co-edited Story Ground, the Anthology (Recent Work Press, 2020) with Paul Collis.