Dr Jen Crawford is a Professor of Creative Writing within the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. She has also lived and taught in Aotearoa/New Zealand and in Singapore. 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 was co-editor and a collaborating translator of Poet to Poet: Contemporary Women Poets from Japan (Recent Work Press, 2017) with Rina Kikuchi. She co-edited Story Ground, the Anthology (Recent Work Press, 2020) with Paul Collis, and Bugiya Nhaway Buraadja: Stories from the Wreck Bay People (Recent Work Press, 2026) with Kain Ardler, Sheryn Brown, Paul Magee and Paul Collis.