Gershon Maller, formerly post-doctoral fellow, University of Queensland, is principal reader at Editors Literati and prose editor at Stylus Lit. The author of two poetry collections, he was awarded the 2023 AAALs poetry prize and joint runner up for the 2022 Blake Poetry Prize. His work appears in the Newcastle and ACU poetry prize collections, journals, including Antipodes, Going Down Swinging, Meanjin, TEXT, The Wallace Stevens Journal (US), and national newspapers The Australian Jewish News, The Sydney Morning Herald.