Richard Reeve is a poet, reviewer, and editor. He has published two collections of poems, "Dialectic of Mud" and "The Life and the Dark," He won the Macmillan Brown Prize for Poetry in 1998 and was awarded the 2002/2003 Todd Foundation New Writer's Bursary. His poems have been published widely in journals in New Zealand, Australia, and Britain and several have been selected for the annual anthology "Best New Zealand Poems Online," He is currently an editor for Otago University Press.