Gig Ryan is an Australian poet who was born in Leicester, England, and was poetry editor for the Melbourne newspaper, The Age 1998-2016. She has also recorded her songs with the bands Disband and Driving Past. Author of seven individual collections, and a large retrospective New and Selected , her book Pure and Applied won the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and Heroic Money was shortlisted for the 2002 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. New and Selected Poems was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry and the ASAL award, and won both the 2012 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the 2011 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry.