Dennis Haskell is the author of seven collections of poetry published in Australia, the Philippines and the UK, and author or editor of fourteen volumes of literary scholarship and criticism. He was co-editor of Westerly magazine from 1985–2009 and is currently a member of the Management Committee of the Westerly Centre, and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia. Haskell was chair of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts from 2009–2011 and is currently Chair of the Board of writingWA. He is the recipient of the Western Australia Premier’s Prize for Poetry, the A. A. Phillips Prize for a distinguished contribution to Australian Literature, and an honorary doctorate of letters from UWA. In 2015 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia. Dennis Haskell has served as visiting poet and professor at universities in England, France, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and the USA.