Dr Jen Crawford is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing within the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. She has also lived and taught in Aotearoa/New Zealand and in Singapore, where she was the founding coordinator of Nanyang Technological University’s Creative Writing Programme. Her critical work focuses on the poetics of place, ecological imagination and on cross-cultural engagements in various literary contexts.

Dr Crawford is the author of eight poetry books and chapbooks, including Koel (Cordite Books, 2016) and Lichen Loves Stone (Tinfish Press, 2016). She is a member of the advisory board for Poetry New Zealand, and is a contributing editor to Axon and the Journal of Poetics Research. Her poetry works with invented and felt spaces and with language as instrumental sound.