Alyson Miller is a prize-winning prose poet and academic who teaches Writing and Literature as a senior lecturer at Deakin University, Melbourne. Her critical and creative work, which focuses on a literature of extremities, has appeared in both national and international publications, including three books of prose poetry, Dream Animals (2014), Pika-Don with Cassandra Atherton (2018), and Strange Creatures (2018), as well as the critical monograph Haunted by Words: Scandalous Texts (2013), and The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections, an edited collection with David Lowe and Cassandra Atherton (2017).