John Tranter has published more than twenty collections of poetry, and has edited a number of poetry anthologies, including The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry (with Philip Mead, 1994). His book Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected (2006) won a number of major Australian prizes, and his recent book, Starlight: 150 Poems, won the Melbourne «Age» Book of the Year poetry award and the Queensland Premier's Award for Poetry, both in 2011. As well as writing and editing poetry he has been a teacher, a publisher's editor, and a radio producer. He devised the long running ABC radio programme Books and Writing with Jan Garrett, and founded the internet quarterly literary magazine Jacket in 1997, which he published and edited until 2010, when he gave it to the University of Pennsylvania.
