Rose Lucas is a Melbourne poet and academic. Her first poetry collection, Even in the Dark (UWAP, 2013) won the Mary Gilmore Award; her second collection was Unexpected Clearing (UWAP, 2016). Her most recent work is the poetry collection This Shuttered Eye (Liquid Amber Press, 2021) and the edited anthology Lockdown Poetry: The Covid long haul (Liquid Amber Press, 2021). She teaches in Graduate Research at Victoria University where she also supervises in creative writing and literary studies.