Thom Sullivan is a writer, editor and reviewer of poetry. His book of poems, CARTE BLANCHE (Vagabond Press), won the 2017-18 Noel Rowe Poetry Award and the 2020 Mary Gilmore Award, for the best first book of poems published in Australia in 2019. His poems have appeared in a range of books and journals, including Australian Book Review, Australian Love Poems, Australian Poetry Anthology, and The Best Australian Poems. He’s an editor for the Adelaide-based literary magazine, AGONY. His reviews have appeared in Plumwood Mountain and Cordite Poetry Review. He’s been a featured writer at Adelaide Writers’ Week and SAETA’s Meet the Writers Festival 2016, 2017 and 2018. He grew up in Wistow/Bugle Ranges in the Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia. He studied Arts and Law (w/Hons) at Adelaide University, and Social Science at Swinburne University, Melbourne. He lives in Adelaide.