Peter Rose is a poet, critic, novelist and editor. To date he has published four collections of poetry, one novel and edited several anthologies. During the 1990s he was a publisher at Oxford University Press, and since 2001 has been the editor of the Australian Book Review. He was also on the judging panel for the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Peter will discuss biography on the basis of his experience in a wide range of roles—publisher, editor, judge and biographer: his family memoir, Rose Boys (2001), won the National Biography Award in 2003.