Stephen Oliver b. 1950. Grew in Brooklyn-west, Wellington, New Zealand. Author of twelve titles of poetry, including Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000, HeadworX Publishers, 2001. One year Magazine Journalism course, Wellington Polytechnic. Radio NZ Broadcasting School. Casual Radio Actor. Lived in Paris, Vienna, London, San Francisco, Greece and Israel. Signed on with the radio ship, The Voice of Peace broadcasting in the Mediterranean out of Jaffa. Freelanced as production voice, newsreader, announcer, voice actor, journalist, copy and features writer. Poems widely represented in New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, USA, UK, South Africa, Canada, etc. New work taken for 3AM Magazine, Aught, Alba, Big Bridge, Blackmail Press, Catalyser Journal, Comet, DIAGRAM, Identity Theory, Sidereality,Snow Monkey, Failbetter, Fire Magazine, San Francisco Salvo, Kitchen Sink, Pemmican, Get Underground, Comrades, Can We Have Our Ball Back? Illuminations, PoetryNZ/26, featured Poet, Mad Blood, Millennium Papers, Milk Magazine, Omega, Orbis, The Paumanok Review, Peshekee River Poetry, Prague TV, storySouth, Stride, Tiger Magazine, Thylazine, Word For/Word, etc. Recently published, DEADLY POLLEN, a poetry chapbook, Word Riot Press, (USA), 2003, and, BALLADS, SATIRE & SALT - A Book of Diversions [with illustrations by Matt Ottley] Greywacke Press, 2003. Recently completed, a recording of poems titled: KING HIT - Selected Readings ­ written and read by Stephen Oliver to original music composed by Matt Ottley, intended for international release. Stephen is a transtasman poet and writer who lives in Sydney. http://people.smartchat.net.au/~sao/ See also: Stephen Oliver interview with Will Roby / Word Riot http://www.wordriot.org