Bonny Cassidyis the author of three poetry collections —Certain Fathoms,Final TheoryandChatelaine(shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award) — and co-editor of the anthologyContemporary Australian Feminist Poetry. Her essays and criticism on Australian literature and culture have been widely published, and her awards include an Asialink fellowship and a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. She teaches Creative Writing at RMIT University and lives in the bush on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Central Victoria.