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Nam Le is the author of The Boat, On David Malouf, and 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, which was published last year in Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. Poems from it appeared in Heat, Overland, Paris Review, Poetry, Granta, APR, and elsewhere. Jill Jones' latest book is Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems (2023), short-listed for the 2024 John Bray Poetry Prize, long-listed for the 2024 ALS Gold Medal and commended in the 2023 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. In 2021 her book, Wild Curious Air, won the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and in 2015 she won the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry for The Beautiful Anxiety. Her work is widely published in Australia and internationally. From 2008-2022, she was Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, and is currently a titleholder at the University. She has also previously worked as an arts administrator, film reviewer, journalist and book editor.
