Australian poet, Jane Frank, was born in 1968 in Maryborough in the Fraser Coast region of Queensland. She holds a PhD from Griffith University, later published as the monograph Regenerating Regional Culture: A Study of the International Book Town Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and has earlier qualifications in art history and arts and cultural management. Her previous poetry collections Ghosts Struggle to Swim (2023) and Wide River (2020) were published by Calanthe Press. Her work has won and been shortlisted for prizes in both Australia and the UK including the Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Poetry Award, the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Wigtown International Poetry Prize. She lives in Brisbane where she lectures in communication and creative industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast and is Reviews Editor for StylusLit Literary Journal.

Australian poet, Jane Frank, was born in 1968 in Maryborough in the Fraser Coast region of Queensland. She holds a PhD from Griffith University, later published as the monograph Regenerating Regional Culture: A Study of the International Book Town Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and has earlier qualifications in art history and arts and cultural management. Her previous poetry collections Ghosts Struggle to Swim (2023) and Wide River (2020) were published by Calanthe Press. Her work has won and been shortlisted for prizes in both Australia and the UK including the Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Poetry Award, the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Wigtown International Poetry Prize. She lives in Brisbane where she lectures in communication and creative industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast and is Reviews Editor for StylusLit Literary Journal.

Australian poet, Jane Frank, was born in 1968 in Maryborough in the Fraser Coast region of Queensland. She holds a PhD from Griffith University, later published as the monograph Regenerating Regional Culture: A Study of the International Book Town Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and has earlier qualifications in art history and arts and cultural management. Her previous poetry collections Ghosts Struggle to Swim (2023) and Wide River (2020) were published by Calanthe Press. Her work has won and been shortlisted for prizes in both Australia and the UK including the Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Poetry Award, the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Wigtown International Poetry Prize. She lives in Brisbane where she lectures in communication and creative industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast and is Reviews Editor for StylusLit Literary Journal.