Alex Skovron is the author of six previous collections, most recently Towards the Equator: New & Selected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014), short-listed for the prime Minister's Literary Awards. His other books include a prose novella The Poet (2005), joint winner of the FAW Christina Stead Award for Fiction and a collection of short stories, The Man Who Took to His Bed (2017). Alex's work has been translated into several languages. He lives in Melbourne.