Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Porter’s award-winning crime thriller in verse, The Monkey’s Mask, has become a modern Australian classic. Her other verse novels include Wild Surmise and What a Piece of Work, both shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, Akhenaten and El Dorado. She has written libretti and song lyrics, including Before Times Could Change us to music by Paul Grabowsky, and seven volumes of poetry. The Bee Hut, the collection from which the lyrics for Life Lines are drawn was published in 2009, a few months after her death.