Hazel Smith is a poet, performer and new media artist. From 2007-2017 Hazel was a Research Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at  Western Sydney University, where she is now an Adjunct Professor. She has published four volumes of poetry including Word Migrants, Giramondo, 2016, several academic and pedagogical books and numerous performance and multimedia works. In 2018 she was, with Will Luers and Roger Dean, awarded the US-based Electronic Literature Organisation’s Robert Coover prize.