Lorraine Shannon is an independent scholar and academic editor. She has a PhD in postcolonial literature from Trinity College, Dublin and a non-traditional PhD in ecology and writing from UTS. She has taught in various universities in Ireland and Australia and published in a range of journals including Australian Humanities Review, PAN and Island Magazine. Her edited collection of writings by the environmental philosopher Val Plumwood, The Eye of the Crocodile, has been published by ANU ePress She has been co-editor of Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and a founding member of Kangaloon creative ecologies. She has also won several garden design awards. (Source: http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue20/Satchell&Shannon.pdf )