Mark Tredinnick OAM is an award-­winning poet, essayist and teacher of writing. He is the author of eighteen books of poetry and prose, and his writing has won the Montreal and Cardiff Poetry Prizes, the Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron Pretty Poetry Prizes, two Premiers’ Literature Awards and the Calibre Essay Prize. The Blue Plateau, his landscape memoir, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Prize, and in 2020 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education.