Paul Venzo (Ph.D.) is a creative writer and academic working in Victoria, Australia. His research focuses on theories of in-between-ness, linguistic hybridity, and the poetics of identity. He has worked for more than a decade teaching child and young adult literature at tertiary level, and has published widely on translation, queer culture, and literary and popular media representations of children and young adults, as well as poetry and poetics. His recent creative work involves poetry-in-translation across English and Italian, in which he takes a contemporary flâneur’s approach to mapping the Self into cultural, imagined, and literary geographies.