Hazel SmithHazel Smith, who emigrated from Britain to Australia in 1988, has published two volumes of poetry and performance texts, Abstractly Represented, Butterfly Books, 1991 and Keys Round Her Tongue, Soma Publishing, 2001, and made three CDs of her performnce work, Poet Without Language, Nuraghic Echoes and Returning the Angles (all involve collaborations with Roger Dean). She is also co-author with Roger Dean of numerous new media works, many available on the Internet. She is a founding member of austraLYSIS, the international sound and new media arts group, and has performed her own work extensively nationally and internationally. Hazel is author of Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O Hara: difference, homosexuality, topography, Liverpool University Press, 2000 and The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing, Allen and Unwin, 2005, which was short-listed for the Australian Publishing Association excellence in educational publishing awards. She is also co-author, with Roger Dean, of Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts Since 1945, Harwood Academic, 1997. Hazel is the founder editor of infLect, an online international journal of multimedia writing. Hazel had a previous career as a professional musician, and can be heard as a solo violinist on several commercial recordings. Read More Read Less