Notorious poet, critic and anthologist Jamie Grant is the author of numerous collections of his own poetry, and has edited several anthologies of poetry and sports writing. He has worked in every possible area of the publishing industry, as a sales representative, a manager, a bookseller, a bookkeeper in a bookshop, an editor, a manuscript assessor, a writer and journalist, a book reviewer, a proofreader, and even as a packer in a publisher's warehouse. For sixteen years he has been a judge for Waverley Council's Nib Literary Award, and in recent years he also been a judge of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, being judgemental at local, state and federal levels of government.
