Richard Reeve was born in Dunedin in 1976. He has published four previous collections of poems: Dialectic of Mud (Auckland University Press, 2001), The Life and the Dark (AUP, 2004), In Continents (AUP, 2008) and The Among (Maungatua Press, 2008). He has been awarded a number of prizes, including the 1998 MacMillan Brown Prize and the 2002/03 Todd Foundation Writer's Bursary, and has had poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems in 2001, 2004 and 2007. Reeve's poems have been widely published in literary journals such as London Magazine, Meanjin, Rattapallax, Southerly, Landfall and Glottis. He is a former university tutor and publishing editor, and currently works as a lawyer. He lives in Warrington in North Otago.