Dr Paul Dawson, Poetry Editor

Paul Dawson’s latest collection of poetry is Lines of Desire (Puncher & Watmann, 2025). His first book, Imagining Winter (IP, 2006), won the national IP Picks Best Poetry Award. Paul has been anthologised in Contemporary Asian Australian Poets (Puncher & Wattmann, 2013) and Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788-2008 (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009), and his poetry and short stories have appeared in top Australian literary journals such as Meanjin, Island, Overland, Southerly, Westerly, Cordite Poetry Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Peril Magazine, Mascara Literary Review, and The Sleepers Almanac. Paul is also an internationally recognized scholar. He has published three academic monographs: The Story of Fictional Truth: Realism from the Death to the Rise of the Novel (OSU Press, 2023), The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction (OSU Press, 2013), and Creative Writing and the New Humanities (Routledge, 2005). He teaches creative writing and literary studies in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales.