Tim Upperton is a poet, reviewer, teacher and blogger who has published three poetry collections. His first book, A House on Fire, was published by Steele Roberts in 2009. His second poetry collection, The Night We Ate The Baby, was an Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist in 2016. In his third poetry collection A Riderless Horse (AUP, 2022) Tim stands in the everyday and then runs with it with poems of acid wit, intimations of loss and unexpected resolution.