Paul Dawson is a writer of fiction and poetry and an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of narrative theory and Creative Writing as an academic discipline. His first book of poems, Imagining Winter (2006), won the national IP Picks Best Poetry award in Australia and his poetry has been anthologized in Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse,1788-2008 (2009) and Contemporary Asian Australian Poets (2013).Paul is also the winner of the 2010 prize for Best Essay in Narrative, awarded by the International Society for the Study of Narrative. He is a senior lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales in Australia.