Dr Victoria Bladen teaches in poetics, literary studies and adaptation at The University of Queensland, Australia. She has published on early modern poetry and Shakespeare on screen, and convenes annual literary summer schools at UQ and abroad. Her creative practice includes poetry, composing music for piano, painting and collage, and she has held four solo exhibitions of her work. The most recent, The Garden (Aspire Gallery 2016), included public readings of her ekphrastic poetry. She is currently working on a volume of poetry entitled Postcards from the Sea.