Australian poet Bev Braune's special areas of interest and expertise are poetics, the poetry of the ancient Americas, and Old Norse-Old Icelandic poetry. Her poems, essays and reviews have appeared in many literary journals, including, Antipodes, Ariel, Cordite, The Independent, Kunapipi, The Manhattan Review, Meanjin, Sulfur, Wasafiri, Writing Ulster. She brought out books Dream Diary with Savacou in 1982 and Camouflage  with Bloodaxe in 1998. She also produced two chapbooks, Dream Diary (Selected and New) 1996 and If the last czarina could speak (2004). First published as Beverley E Brown in the mid 1970s in the University of the West Indies literary magazine Arts Review, Bev Braune won three prizes for her poetry in the 1976 Jamaica Festival. She moved to Australia in 1983 through an interest in Australian literature, presenting an invited paper that year on Elizabeth Harrower at the Sixth Annual Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Languages and Literatures (EACLALS) in Germany. She was listed in The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature 1992.  Anthologies with her work include From Our Yard: Jamaican Poetry Since Independence 1987, the Subverse: Queensland Poetry Festival 1997 – 2001 collection Subversions [generations of contemporary poetry] 2001 and Contemporary Australian Poetry in Chinese Translation (trans. Ouyang Yu) 2007.  She holds a doctorate in creative arts from the University of Wollongong for her thesis Skulváði Úlfr: Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space (1999) which focussed on the means of skáldic poetry to address fundamental questions about the nature of reading.  Bev lives in Sydney where she continues that work. She has a webpage at poetry & poetics|reader and text.