The editor of The Best Australian Poems 2011 is John Tranter.
John Tranter is the author of more than twenty books. His 2006 poetry collection Urban Myths: 210 Poems: New and Selected won multiple awards, including the Victorian, NSW and South Australian Premiers’ Prizes. His latest book, Starlight: 150 Poems, in 2011 won the Age Book of the Year Award for Poetry and the Queensland Premier’s Prize.