Kate Fagan is an Australian poet, musician and academic.She gained her PhD at the University of Sydney with a doctoral thesis on the poetics of Lyn Hejinian. She is now a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney in poetry. She is a former editor of How2, a US-based online journal of innovative poetry and poetics. She is also a songwriter and performer whose album Diamond Wheel won the National Film & Sound Archive Award for Best Folk Album.Fagan comes from a family of folk singers and was strongly influenced by traditional ballads. She has said that, whether she writes songs or poems, she feels the same need to create a lyrical work, and that, to her, "lyricism is a heightened awareness of the music of relations between things". Wikipedia