'Many Such as She: Victorian Australian Women Poets of World War One' | poetry | ISBN 978 1 877010 897 | 314 pgs | May 2019 | $27.50 (within Australia)
Michael Sharkey has written literary biographies and essays for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, and books by other editors. He has also published widely on nineteenth and twentieth-century fiction and poetry, and has contributed several hundred reviews to literary journals and newspapers in Australia, Europe, Canada and New Zealand. A selection of the latter is contained in The Poetic Eye: Occasional Writing 1982-2012, published in the Netherlands by Brill. He has edited the work of several Australian writers, and he formerly edited Ulitarra literary magazine and the Australian Poetry Journal. He taught Australian and other literatures at universities in Australia, New Zealand, China and Germany, and is the author of fourteen collections of poetry and was awarded the 2012 Grace Leven Prize for poetry. He lives in Castlemaine, Victoria