Ella Jeffery’s debut collection, Dead Bolt, won the Puncher & Wattmann First Book of Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the Dame Mary Gilmore Award and won the Anne Elder Award. Her poetry has appeared extensively, including in Best Australian Poems, HEAT, Meanjin and Island. She is the recipient of a Queensland Writers Fellowship, the Mick Dark Fellowship for Environmental Writing and the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award.