Lizz Murphy is an Irish-Australian poet who writes mainly between Binalong NSW and Canberra ACT, a habit which began while commuting by bus aeons ago. Now she commutes from Binalong to Canberra part-time by car, still keeping her eye out for poems. She writes in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry, sometimes incorporating found text and image. Lizz has published fourteen books. The Wear of My Face is her ninth poetry title. She is widely published in anthologies and journals in Australia and overseas. She is a former Canberra Times Poetry Editor and has worked in regional arts development, and as a publicist in arts and publishing. She was once a regional newspaper editor and once upon a time long before that, a shop assistant. She blogs occasionally at A Poet’s Slant. lizzmurphypoet.blogspot.com

"The Wear of My Face is an uncanny and politically powerful collection. It traverses ‘strangelands’ that thrum with colour. Its fragments are suspended in a tender tension, much like the conundrums of the human world it explores." —Sarah St Vincent Welch, writer and image maker