Jake Goetz is a writer and researcher based on the lands of the Gadigal people (Sydney, Australia). He has published three collections of poetry: meditations with passing water (Rabbit Poets Series, 2018), which was shortlisted for the 2019 Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance, Unplanned Encounters: Poems 2015–2020 (Apothecary Archive, 2023), and Holocene Pointbreaks (Puncher & Wattmann, 2024). He has been the recipient of various fellowships and residencies for his writing and research, and his poetry has also been commended and shortlisted for various prizes, most recently the Newcastle Poetry Prize (2023), and was awarded the Harri Jones Memorial Prize. Further shortlists include the University of Sydney’s David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize (2023); the Judith Wright Poetry Prize (2023/2022); and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2022). In 2023, he obtained a doctorate’s degree of creative arts in writing and literature from the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University. He recently began tutoring in creative writing at the University of Wollongong and is the reviews editor at the Australian journal of ecopoetics Plumwood Mountain.