Stephen EdgarStephen Edgar was born in 1951 in Sydney, where he grew up. In the early seventies he lived in London; on coming back to Australia in 1974 he moved to Hobart until 2005, when he returned to Sydney. He studied Classics and English at the University ofTasmania. His fifth collection Lost in the Foreground won the 2003 Grace Leven prize and the William Baylebridge Memorial Prize. He won the inaugural Australian Book Review Poetry Prize in 2005 for 'Man on the Moon', which appears in Other Summers. In 2006 he won the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature and in 2009 received a second William Baylebridge Memorial Prize for History of the Day. In 2012 a selection of his earlier works, The Red Sea, was published by Baskerville Publishers in the United States, where he has a dedicated following. In 2013 he won the inaugural Australian Catholic University Literature Award for his poem 'The Dancer', of which Kevin Hart said: 'A formally exquisite narrative poem with all the intellectual acuity one has come to expect of his work.' Read More Read Less