Barbara Temperton is an award-winning Western Australian writer. Her poetry and prose fiction is inspired by the landscapes and stories of the numerous places/spaces she has encountered. She is the author of Southern Edge: Three Stories in Verse (Fremantle Press, 2009) and Going Feral (Fremantle Press, 2002), winner of the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Poetry. Barbara was Westerly magazine’s poetry editorial advisor from 2009 to 2011; she has worked with song lyrics, on community writing and theatre projects, and as a tutor in english and creative writing courses at Edith Cowan University and Curtin University, Perth, and the University of Western Australia’s Albany Centre.