Joanna Preston is a Tasmanaut poet, editor, and freelance creative writing teacher. Her award-winning poems have been widely published in New Zealand and internationally, including in Best Australian Poems (2004) and the prestigious 2007 Carcanet anthology New Poetries IV. Her first collection, The Summer King, won both the inaugural Kathleen Grattan Award (NZ) and the 2010 Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize (Australia). She has an MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan (Wales), and is co-editor of Kokako magazine.