Anne Elvey is a poet, editor and researcher, living on unceded Bunurong Country in Seaford. She has released five poetry collections, most recently Leaf, published in 2022, which was shortlisted for the 2023 ASLE-UKI Book Prize for the best work of creative writing with an ecological theme. Her other works include Obligations of Voice, On Arrivals of Breath, White on White and Kin, which was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in 2015. Also, in 2015, she won the Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Award 2015. She has written four books and co-wrote four more. Her most recent book is Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics, which won the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Established Scholar.
In 2017, she co-authored Intatto/Intact, an Italian-English collection of ecopoetry with Massimo D’Arcangelo and Helen Moore. She was the inaugural managing editor of Plumwood Mountain journal until 2020. Behind an unkempt garden, home to wattlebirds, brushtail and ringtail possums, occasionally tawny frogmouths and bats, with visiting bees, dragonflies, little ravens and rainbow lorikeets, among others, with her partner Greg Price.