Bronwyn Lea is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and in Writing, Editing, and Publishing in the School of EMSAH. She is the author of Flight Animals (UQP, 2001) which won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry, the Fellowship of Australian Writers Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for five national awards. Her poems have been widely published, anthologised, and translated into several languages. Her most recent collection of poems is The Other Way Out (Giramondo, 2008). Bronwyn is the founder and series editor, with Martin Duwell, of UQP's annual Best Australian Poetry anthology. As poetry editor at University of Queensland Press since 2003, she has published titles by Australia's most renowned poets and launched the careers of a number of new voices. Bronwyn is a consultant to a range of state and federal arts organisations. She served on the Literature Board of the Australia Council from 2005-2008. Dr Bronwyn Lea lectures in Contemporary Literature: Reading and Writing; Creative Writing: Poetics; and Creative Writing: Narrative in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland. At the postgraduate level, she is advisor to a range of creative writing students who have gone on to publish award-winning books.