Shari Kocher is the author of The Non-Sequitur of Snow (Puncher & Wattmann, 2015). Her award-winning poetry, and other writings, have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies in Australia and internationally, for more than two decades. She holds a PhD from Melbourne University and currently works as a freelance editor, scholar, and poet, while tutoring and supervising in the School of Culture and Communications at Melbourne University.