 Michael Sharkey is a biographer, poet and reviewer of Australian and New Zealand poetry and journalism, having published over 700 works.He established Fat Possum Press in Armidale NSW (1979–1986) with Winifred Belmont and co-edited with her "Trans-Tasman Undercurrent" literary magazine in Melbourne (1986).His poems have appeared in literary anthologies, journals and newspapers in Australia, New Zealand, India, the UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Syria, China and France.