Dr N.N. (‘Nick’) Trakakis teaches philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, and also writes, edits and translates poetry. His philosophical publications include The God Beyond Belief (Springer, 2007) and The End of Philosophy of Religion (Continuum, 2008). He edited Southern Sun, Aegean Light: Poetry of Second-Generation Greek-Australians (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011), and his translations of Leivaditis include The Blind Man with the Lamp (Denise Harvey Publications, 2014) and Violets for a Season (Red Dragonfly Press, 2017).