Michelle Cahill is an Anglo-Indian writer living in Sydney. She studied Medicine at Sydney University and has a Creative Writing Arts major from Macquarie University. Her first collection of poetry The Accidental Cage (IP, Best First Book Award) was short-listed in the 2007 Judith Wright Prize. Michelle is the editor of a transnational chapbook Poetry Without Borders, forthcoming with Picaro Press, and the founding co-editor of Mascara Australasian Poetry. Her poetry and essays have been published in journals like Jacket, Cordite, e-ratio, Poetry Macao, Journal of Australian Studies and forthcoming in Meanjin. [Read]