Paul Dawson is a poet, scholar, and literary critic. He has published four
books, including his first collection of poetry, Imagining Winter (IP,
2006), which won the national IP Picks Best Poetry Award. Paul has
been anthologised in Contemporary Asian Australian Poets (Puncher &
Wattmann, 2013) and Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788-2008
(Puncher & Wattmann, 2009). His poems appear in many of Australia’s
literary journals, including Meanjin, Island, Southerly, Westerly, Cordite
Poetry Review, Australian Poetry Journal, and Mascara Literary Review.
Paul teaches literary studies and Creative Writing in the School of the Arts
and Media at the University of New South Wales.