Vincent O'Sullivan is former professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington and at the University of Waikato. He is the author of the novels Believers to the Bright Coast and Let the River Stand, which won a Montana New Zealand Book Award; the poetry collections Blame Vermeer, Further Convictions Pending: Poems 1999-2008, Lucky Table, and Seeing You Asked; and Long Journey to the Border, a biography of John Mulgan. He is the coeditor of The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, and he has edited several major anthologies. He is the current poet laureate of New Zealand.