Sarah Holland-Batt's most recent book of poems is The Hazards (UQP, 2015), which was winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Poetry and was shortlisted in the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, the NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the AFAL John Bray Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Queensland Literary Awards Judith Wright Calanthe Award. She is the editor of The Best Australian Poems 2016 (Black Inc.), is poetry editor of Island, and works as an Associate Professor at QUT.