Peter Minter is a poet, editor, and writer on poetry and poetics. His poetry is widely published in Australia and internationally, and he is the author of numerous award winning and translated books of poetry such as Empty Texas, blue grass, and In the Serious Light of Nothing. He was a founding editor of Cordite Poetry Review, poetry editor for leading Australian journals Meanjin and Overland, and has co-edited anthologies such as Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets and the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature. He teaches at the University of Sydney.