Dominique Hecq grew up in the French-speaking part of Belgium and now lives in Melbourne, Australia, and writes in English and in French. She has published a novel, six collections of her short stories, and thirteen poetry books and chapbooks, including "After Cage: A Composition in Word and Movement on Time and Silence" (Liquid Amber Press, 2022) and, most recently, the prose poetry sequence entitled "Songlines" (Hedgehog, 2023). She was a recipient of the Martha Richardson Medal for Poetry (2006) and the International Best Poets Prize from the International Poetry Translation and Research Centre in conjunction with the International Academy of Arts and Letters. This book won James Tate Prize for Poetry (2022).