LUKE JOHNSON in a writer and academic from Wollongong, NSW. His poems, stories, essays and criticism have been widely published and performed in Australia and have won or been listed for numerous national prizes, including the AAWP Chapter One Prize, the Elizabeth Jolley Award, the Josephine Ulrick Award, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award as well as several development fellowships. He is the author two books, Ferocious Animals (2021) and Kangaroo Unbound (2025), a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wollongong, and surfing tragic.