Susan Fealy is a Melbourne-based poet, writer and clinical psychologist. She was appointed as a Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne in 2001. She began writing and publishing poetry in 2007. Her poems have been published widely in Australian journals, newspapers and anthologies including Best Australian Poems 2009, 2010 and 2013. Others appear in the United States, India and Sweden.  Among awards for her poetry are the NSW Society of Women Writers National Poetry Prize and the Henry Kendall Poetry Award. Flute of Milk, her first collection, was published by the University of Western Australia Press in 2017.