Geoff Lemon is co-editor of Going Down Swinging, one of Australia’s longest-running and most idiosyncratic literary/arts anthologies, and the only Australian publisher to also produce spoken word CDs and digital media editions. Before that he was poetry editor of harvest and Voiceworks magazines. Geoff founded Wordplay Collective in 2006, which runs spoken word performances in Australia, and maintains an archive of recordings at Wordplay.
A multiple and mostly retired slam winner, he has performed at shows and festivals across Australia and overseas, been broadcast numerous times on national radio, and supported music acts like TZU, Sietta, Joelistics, True Live, Paris Wells, and The Church’s Steve Kilbey. On the page his poems and stories are widely published in the likes of Best Australian Stories, HEAT, Griffith Review, and Island. His first book, Sunblind, was published in 2008.
He works as a freelance journalist, essayist, and editor, writing social and political commentary for outlets like The Punch and the ABC’s The Drum, as well as writing on music (MTV, RHUM), the arts (Beat), sport (The Roar), and literature (The Book Show). He also writes the controversial blog Heathen Scripture.