Cassandra Atherton is an award-winning prose poet and international expert on prose poetry. She was a Visiting Scholar in English at Harvard University, a Visiting Fellow at Sophia University, Japan, and is currently Professor of Writing and Literature at Deakin University. Cassandra co-authored Prose Poetry: An Introduction and co-edited the Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry. She is a commissioning editor for Westerly magazine, associate editor at MadHat Press (USA), senior editor at Spineless Wonders.