is the author of Devious Intimacy (Hunter Publishers, 2015) and The Complete Pocketbook of Swoon (Vagabond Press, 2014). She is also the author of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing (Wesleyan University Press, 2000) and Stressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry (Salt, 2007). She is co-editor with John Hawke of Poetry and the Trace (Puncher & Wattmann, 2013) and co-editor with Margaret Henderson of Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines (Australian Literary Studies, 2009). She was editor-in-chief of HOW2 and is poetry editor of Puncher & Wattmann. She is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at Deakin University and lives in Melbourne
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