Tim Loveday is a poet, writer and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation and climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards, the 2025 Calanthe Prize, the 2025 High Country Poetry Award and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, the 2024 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize, the 2024 Best Australian Yarn, the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize and the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Unpublished Manuscript Award. Tim teaches Creative Writing at Unimelb and RMIT. He is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Unimelb. He’s ‘that poetry guy’ at Readings Bookstores. More at: timloveday.com.