T.A.R. Wallace lives in Bendigo, Australia. His first book of poems ‘Postmortem for an Institution of Madness’ was a semi-finalist in the Verse Magazine Poetry Prize 2000 (USA). He’s had poems published in Verse, Conduit, Slope, Volt (USA) and in Australia: Meanjin, Heat, The Age. He recently won the Lane Cove Literary Awards Poetry Prize 2023. He is a Yoga Therapist and Disability Support Worker.