Joel McKerrow is a performance poet, writer, educator, youth worker, thinker and activist based out of Melbourne, Australia. He is the founder and Co-director of ‘The Centre for Poetics and Justice’ (www.cpj.org.au), a not-for-profit, community arts organisation focused on using poetics as a form of literary education, self-expression and social engagement for marginalised teenagers. Over the last two years with CPJ he has performed and run extensive workshops throughout Australia.