Paul Hetherington lives in Canberra. His poems have appeared in numerous Australian and international journals and magazines and have been widely anthologised. He has published six previous volumes of poetry, most recently Stepping Away: Selected Poems. He won the 1996 Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award (for Shadow Swimmer) and the 1997 ANUTECH Poetry Prize, and was awarded a 2002 Chief Minister's ACT Creative Arts Fellowship. He is currently Director of the Publications and Events Branch at the National Library of Australia and editor of the monthly magazine National Library of Australia News (since 1990). He was editor of volume two of The Diaries of Donald Friend, published by the National Library, and founding editor of the quarterly humanities journal Voices (1991—97). He is a former editor of the monthly multi-arts magazine Fremantle Arts Review and a former Poetry Editor for the Canberra Times.

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