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Anne Elvey is a poet, editor and researcher, living on unceded Bunurong Country. Her recent poetry collections are Leaf (Liquid Amber Press, 2022), shortlisted in the 2023 ASLE-UKI Book Prize for the best work of creative writing with an ecological theme, and Obligations of voice (Recent Work Press, 2021). Intents is forthcoming from Liquid Amber Press in April 2025. Kin (Five Islands Press, 2014) was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2015. She was international winner of the Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Award 2015. Anne is co-author of Intatto/Intact (La Vita Felice, 2017), an Italian-English collection of ecopoetry with Massimo D’Arcangelo and Helen Moore, and translators Francesca Cosi, Alessandra Repossi and Todd Protnowitz. She was inaugural managing editor of Plumwood Mountain journal until 2020. Her scholarly book Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2022) was winner of the inaugural ANZATS Book Prize for an Established Scholar. Behind an unkempt garden, home to wattlebirds, brushtail and ringtail possums, occasionally tawny frogmouths and bats, with visiting bees, dragonflies, little ravens and rainbow lorikeets, among others, she lives near Port Phillip Bay in Seaford, Victoria, with her partner Greg Price.