Born in London and raised on unceded Gadigal land, Toby Fitch (he/they) is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Sydney, former poetry editor of Overland, and the author of nine books of poetry, including Sydney Spleen (2021) and Object Permanence: Calligrammes (a full-colour collected edition of visual poetry, 2022). Toby’s poetry has won the Grace Leven Prize, the Charles Rischbieth Jury Prize and the Leonie Kramer Award. His visual poetry has been featured at various galleries, including SNO and WORDXIMAGE. Toby lives in Sydney’s inner west with his partner and their three children.