Joanna Preston is a Tasmanaut poet, editor, and creative writing tutor. Her first poetry collection, ‘The Summer King’, won the 2008 Kathleen Grattan Award and the 2010 Mary Gilmore Award, and her second, ‘tumble’, won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. She has edited numerous poetry anthologies as well as individual poetry collections, and served two terms on the committee of the Canterbury Poets’ Collective. She teaches at Hagley Writers’ Institute.
