Toby Fitch is a leading Australian poet, editor, critic and teacher. He is the current poetry editor of Overland, Australia's premier journal of radical politics. His poetry has won or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Charles Rischbieth Jury Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Gwen Harwood Prize. His books of poetry include Rawshock, which won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry 2012, The Bloomin' Notions of Other & Beau, Where Only the Sky had Hung Before, and, most recently,Sydney Spleen (Giramondo Publishing, 2021) and Object Permanence: Calligrammes (Puncher & Wattmann / Thorny Devil Press, 2022). He co-edited Best of Australian Poems 2021 with Ellen van Neerven.