Mark Tredinnick is a celebrated poet, essayist, and writing teacher. His honours include the Montreal and Cardiff Poetry Prizes, The Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, two Premiers' Literature Awards, and the Calibre Essay Prize. The Blue Plateau, his landscape memoir, shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Prize. He travels and teaches widely, in schools and at festivals, through Australia and in the US and UK. In 2016 his poem "The Horse" won the ACU Poetry Prize; in March 2017, his poem "Panic Very Softly, Love" won the Ron Pretty Poetry Prize.