LYNDON WALKER was born in Townsville North Queensland in 1951. He was educated in Psychology at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. Lyndon practices as a Family and Individual Therapist in Melbourne. He has been published regularly in Australian literary journals over the last twenty years and occasionally overseas. He undertook a world reading tour of London, Paris, New York, Oxford and Princeton in 1994 and in 1996 was awarded the first Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry given to a writer in English.