Lachlan Brown's poems have appeared in journals including Heat, Southerly, Antipodes, Cordite and Mascara. He has been shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. His first book of poetry, Limited Cities (2012), was highly commended for the Mary Gilmore Award. Brown teaches literature at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia. He has received a Marten Travelling Bequest for poetry and an Australia Council Emerging Writers' grant for poetry. His current project involves exploring his Asian-Australian heritage, his grandmother's hoarding, and the state of China in the Asian Century. [The Other Side]