Benny Walter works at Fullers Bookshop. He is the author of the new and innovative book Below Tree Level, produced with Leigh Rigozzi under their new imprint, Inscrutable Press, with the assistance of the Australia Council.

His writing has been included in Famous Reporter, Tarkine and a special collaboration between Voiceworks and the Noise Festival featuring the best young writers around Australia.

He was the editor of The Brew, produced the Arts Tasmania funded poetry exhibition Writings on the Wall, and co-produced the cross-disciplinary exhibition, People of Import, at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. In late 2004 Benny represented Tasmania in the first national poetry slam on Radio National. He didn't win.

Take him out to coffee by emailing him on bennyjwalter@hotmail.com.

 The final touches of Below Tree Level, an Australia Council funded collaboration between literary fiction and comics, producing a book and art installation to feature as part of the Mountain Festival in March 2008.