Graeme Kinross-Smith is a Victorian poet and honorary fellow of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University where he lecturer for many years. His poetry was first published in the Melbourne University Magazine in 1959 and he has been consistently publishing poetry, short fiction and occasionally photography in a range of newspapers, literary periodicals and recent anthologies since then. His published works include Writer: A Working Guide for New Writers (1992), The Oxford Book of Australian Sporting Anecdotes (1993), If I Abscond: New Poems and Short Fictions (1997) and Long Afternoon of the World (2007).