Award-winning poet Stuart Barnes was born in Tasmania, educated at Monash University, Victoria, and lives in Queensland, Australia. His first book, Glasshouses (UQP, 2016), won the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was commended for the 2016 FAW Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the 2017 ASAL Mary Gilmore Award. Stuart's second book, Like to the Lark, was published by Upswell Publishing in 2023. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, awarded the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award, the ACU Prize for Poetry, the Montreal International Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the NWF joanne burns Microlit Award, the Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize and the Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award, and been widely published in anthologies and journals, including in The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, Antipodes (USA), Australian Book Review, Best of Australian Poems 2022, Cordite Poetry Review, Griffith Review, The Language in My Tongue: An Anthology of Australian and New Zealand Poetry, The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2020, The Moth (Ireland), POETRY (Chicago), Poetry Wales, Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry, Southerly Journal and The Weekend Australian Review.