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Jacinta Le Plastrier is a Melbourne/Naarm-based writer, poet, essayist, editor and publisher. Her writing, journalism, criticism and poetry have appeared in anthologies by Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Pan Picador and Melbourne University Press, along with The Guardian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review, ABC 24 Hours, The Wheeler Centre (Hot Desk Fellowship), sick leave journal, Cordite and Meanjin, among others. She is the former Chief Executive at the national poetry body, Australian Poetry, where she also sat as Publisher. This role included the co-founding of the Best of Australian Poems annual series with Toby Fitch and Ellen van Neerven. Jacinta also has a private practice of writing and teaching on the supernatural.