Paul Cliff is a poet, playwright and editor whose poetry,stories, critical articles and reviews have been widely published over the past 30 years. Among prizes won (or for which he has been short-listed) are the Mattara Poetry Prize, the David Campbell and Rosemary Dobson Poetry Prizes. Deadline: A Manual for Hostage-Taking won the Canberra Playwright’s Award 2000 and was produced at Canberra’s Theatre 3. He has worked for multinational publishing houses, universities and magazines, and was Senior Editor at both the National Library of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia.