Authors

Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He is the author of several chapbooks, including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014), Mathemaku x5 (Spacecraft Press, 2015), and Austere Lights (Locofo Chaps: an imprint of Moria Books, 2017). For more, visit aliznaidi.blogspot.com.

Alice publishes the podcast Poetry Says, where she interviews poets from Australia and overseas about the poetry that matters to them. She also runs the Melbourne reading series Sporting Poets. Her poetry has been published in journals including Rabbit, Cordite, Southerly, Australian Book Review and Westerly, and shortlisted for the Blake Poetry Prize.

Alison Clifton holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Queensland. Her thesis was in the area of contemporary British poetry. She is the Reviews Editor at StylusLit and has reviewed poetry collections for Cordite and Australian Poetry Journal. Her poetry has been published in Hecate.

Andy Jackson has featured at literary events and arts festivals in Australia, India, USA and Ireland, and lives in Castlemaine. His most recent collection, Music our bodies can't hold(Hunter Publishers 2017), consists of portrait poems of other people with Marfan Syndrome.

ANGELA GARDNER’s is the author of four poetry collections Parts of Speech (UQP, 2007) winner of the Thomas Shapcott Arts Queensland Poetry Prize, Views of the Hudson (Shearsman Books UK, 2009), The Told World (Shearsman, 2014) and Thing&Unthing (Vagabond Press, Sydney 2014) in addition to chapbooks and collaborations. She has received a Churchill Fellowship, an Australia Council Literature Residency among other awards and commissions. In 2018 she was awarded an Australia Council project grant and a manuscript Some Sketchy Notes on Matter was shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award. She edits at www.foame.org.

Anne Elvey is author of White on White (Cordite Books 2018), Kin (Five Islands Press 2014) and This Flesh That You Know (Leaf Press 2015), and with Massimo D’Arcangelo and Helen Moore co-author of Intatto-Intact (La Vita Felice, 2017). She is managing editor of Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics. She lives in Seaford, Victoria, and holds honorary appointments at Monash University and University of Divinity.

Poet, editor and reviewer Anne Kellas’s third collection, The White Room Poems (Walleah Press), was shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize in the 2017 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary awards, and in 2018 she was highly commended for the Bruce Dawe poetry award. The Netted Air (Picaro Poets) appeared in 2018. At one time she was a poetry editor for famous reporter and for The Write Stuff. Her blog, North of the Latte Line, can be accessed from https://annekellas.com

Barnaby Smith is a poet, journalist and musician currently living on Bundjalung land. His poetry has appeared in Cordite, Southerly, FourW, Best Australian Poems, Australian Poetry Anthology, Meniscus, E;Ratio, Transnational Literature and others. He won the 2018 Scarlett Award for arts criticism. Well Trodden was previously published at Molly Bloom journal. Barnaby Smith can be found at www.seededelsewhere.com

Brent Cantwell is a New Zealand writer from Timaru, South Canterbury, who lives with his family in the hinterland of Queensland, Australia. He teaches high school English and has been writing for pleasure for 23 years. He has recently been published in Sweet Mammalian, Turbine/ Kapohau, Cordite, Brief, Blackmail Press, Landfall, London Grip, Takahe and Plumwood Mountain.

Brian Obiri-Asare is a writer who lives and works in Sydney.

Caren Florance has just completed a practice-led PhD on material collaborations with poets. Her work connects diverse forms of print culture, through the use of letterpress and other textual technologies. She works at the University of Canberra, the ANU School of Art & Design, and is currently Critic-in-Residence at ANCA Gallery, Canberra. Her latest books are poetry collaborations with Angela Gardner (The future, un-imagine) and Melinda Smith (1962: Be Spoken To), both through Recent Work Press, 2017.

Carmen Leigh Keates won the 2015 Whitmore Press manuscript prize, leading to the publication of her debut poetry collection, the cinema-themed Meteorites, which was shortlisted for the 2017 QLD Literary Awards. Her poem "To Paint the Inside of a Church" appears in The Best Australian Poems 2017 (Black Inc). Carmen lives in Brisbane.

Christopher (Kit) Kelen is an Australian writer and visual artist. Volumes of his poetry have been published in Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Indonesian and Filipino. The most recent of Kit Kelen's dozen English language poetry books are China Years – New and Selected Poems (ASM/Flying Islands) and Scavenger’s Season (Puncher and Wattmann). His next collection Poor Man's Coat - Hardanger poems in being published by University of Western Australia Press in 2018. Kelen is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Macau in south China, where he taught Literature and Creative Writing for many years

Dave Drayton was an amateur banjo player, founding member of the Atterton Academy, Kanganoulipian, and the author of E, UIO, A: a feghoot (Container), A pet per ably-faced kid (Stale Objects dePress), P(oe)Ms (Rabbit), Haiturograms (Stale Objects dePress) and Poetic Pentagons(Spacecraft Press).

David Stavanger is a poet, performer and cultural producer. In 2013 he won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, resulting in the release of The Special (UQP), his first full-length collection of poetry which was awarded the 2015 Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. David's poetry was commissioned as part of Australian Book Review's States of Poetry - QLD II in 2017, his prose-poem 'The Electric Journal' was a finalist of the 2016 Newcastle Poetry Prize and he has recently been selected as the 2017 Melbourne Visiting Poets Program's resident. David was the Co-Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival (20152-17) and is also sometimes known as Green Room-nominated 'spoken weird' artist Ghostboy.

Elaine Leong is a Hong Kong Australian writer and visual artist. At this stage, she prefers her biography to be written and read apophatically on oracle bones. Like breathing, or a well wrought metaphor, it’s an unspoken pleasure to speculate in silence, she thinks. onetaste has been previously published in Plumwood Mountain, vol. 5, no. 1 (Feb 2018).

Estelle Castro-Koshy is a French scholar who has been working with Indigenous Australian writers, performers, and filmmakers, for over 15 years, and with Indigenous Tahitian writers and artists since 2006. She is currently an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at James Cook University. Her translation of Wisdom Man: Banjo Clarke as Told to Camilla Chance was a runner-up for the national Translation “Revelation” prize from the French Society of People of Letters in 2018. In 2018, she also co-directed with Dominique Masson a 18-minute film, Fiona Visits her Great Uncle (http://www.clapdoc.org/fiona.html). She is co-editing with Géraldine Le Roux a special issue on "Environmental Artistic Practices and Indigeneity: In(ter)ventions, Recycling, Sovereignty" (https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/announcement).

Gavin Yates is from Melbourne. His writing has featured in Colloquy: Text Theory Critique, Cordite Poetry Review, Snorkel, Tincture Journal, Verge, Westerly, among others.

Gavin Yuan Gao is a Brisbane-based poet educated in Queensland and Michigan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Voiceworks, Stilts and Michigan Quarterly Review.

G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are a long poem, Testament (BOA Editions, 2015), and a chapbook, Susquehanna (Omnidawn, 2013). With Joshua Corey he edited The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta, 2012). His new collection, feast gently, is due out from Tupelo Press in 2018. He lives in Lewisburg, Pa., where he teaches at Bucknell University, edits the journal West Branch, and serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.

Heather Taylor Johnson’s latest books are the novel Jean Harley was Here, shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Fiction, and the poetry collection Meanwhile, the Oak. She conceived and edited Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of Chronic Illness and Pain, which has been shortlisted for Mascara Literary Review’s Avant-garde Awards. She’s currently Writer-in-Resident at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.

Helen Thurloe is a Sydney writer. Her poetry has won national awards, including the ACU Prize for Literature, and her poems can be found in anthologies, journals and online. Helen’s debut novel, Promising Azra, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2016, and shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. www.helenthurloe.com.au

Howie Good is the author of The Loser's Guide to Street Fighting, winner of the 2017 Lorien Prize and forthcoming from Thoughtcrime Press, and Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry.

Since 2008, I've had five full collections of poems published, mainly in the UK. Poems have been published or are forthcoming in Cordite, Southerly Journal, Meanjin, Harvard Review, POETRY (Chicago), The New York Times, Jacket2, Stand, Agenda, The Black Market Re-View, The Fortnightly Review, Poetry Wales, The Long Poem Magazine, Blackbox Manifold, Molly Bloom, Poetry Salzburg Review, brief, Takahe, Landfall and John Tranter's, the Journal of Poetics Research. A new collection of poetry THE INTAGLIO POEMS was published by Hesterglock Press (UK), 2017. foame: has published my work in issues 4,7,9,12,14

Artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg is a Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee. Her found poems have appeared in Diagram, Heavy Feather Review, Rise Up Review, The Tishman Review, Hedgerow, Otoliths, and elsewhere. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and blogs most days at thepoetrydepartment.wordpress.com.

Jane Downing has had prose and poetry published in journals including The Griffith Review, Island, Southerly, Westerly, Overland, The Big Issue and Best Australian Poems 2004 and 2015. Her two novels –The Trickster (2003) and The Lost Tribe (2005) – were published by Pandanus Books at the Australian National University. She can be found at www.janedowning.wordpress.com

Jena Woodhouse recently spent time writing at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. In 2017 her work appeared in Verge 2017: Chimera(Monash University); the Red Room’s New Shoots anthology; Not Very Quiet; the Henry Kendall Poetry Award’s competition anthology Ear to Earth (as a prizewinner); StylusLit; and elsewhere, and as a guest blog on the State Library of Queensland's website. Her poem, "Green Dance", forms part of a new permanent poetry installation on Mt Tamborine. She is currently the poetry editor for Hecate.

Jena Woodhouse's most recent poetry collection is a chapbook, "Green Dance: Tamborine Mountain Poems" (Calanthe Press 2018).

Jill Jones’ most recent book is Brink (Five Islands Press, 2017). Her two previous books are The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann, 2014) which won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2015, and Breaking the Days (Whitmore Press, 2015) which won the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize 2014 and was shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. A new book, Viva the Real, is due from UQP in late 2018. In 2014 she was poet-in-residence at Stockholm University. She is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide.

Kathryn Hummel is the author of four volumes of poetry: her fifth is forthcoming with Singapore’s Math Paper Press and her sixth and seventh with London's Protex(s)t Books. Uncollected, her digital media / poetry, non-fiction, fiction and scholarly research has been published and presented worldwide. Winner of the NEC / Meanjin Essay Writing Competition and the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Dorothy Porter Award for poetry, Kathryn's writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, among others. Currently, Kathryn edits travel writing and non-fiction for Verity La. More @katscratchez

Kevin Densley Biographical Note Kevin Densley’s poetry has appeared in Australian, English and American journals. Densley’s latest poetry collection, his third, Orpheus in the Undershirt, was published by Ginninderra Press in early 2018. He is also the co-author of many plays with Steve Taylor, including Last Chance Gas, published by Currency Press.

[Lawrence Upton (lawrenceupton.org): poet and graphic & sound artist Publications: wrack (2012); Memory Fictions (2012); Unframed Pictures (2011); and Some commentaries on Bob Cobbing (2013). He co-edited Word Score Utterance Choreography in Verbal and Visual Poetry (1998) with Bob Cobbing, with whom he also made Domestic Ambient Noise, spanning 300 pamphlets totalling more than 1800 pages (1994-2000).20 + text-sound compositions with John Levack Drever.Second solo exhibition (“from recent projects”) September 2012, London. Made photo, synthesis (for solo viola) on commission to Benedict Taylor (2013) (Subverten CD).Convenes Writers Forum Workshop (since Cobbing's death in 2002). Academic member Athens Institute for Education and Research

Editor / director Writers Forum. Text-sound composition with various musicians, especially John Levack Drever. Poet and visual artist.

LES WICKS is an Australian poet who is known for his versatility on both stage & page. He has toured widely and seen publication in over 350 different magazines, anthologies & newspapers across 28 countries in 13 languages. His 13thbookof poetry is Getting By Not Fitting In (Island, 2016).

Liam Ferney's most recent collection Content (Hunter Publishing) was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. His previous collections are Boom (2013) and Popular Mechanics (2005). He is a media manager, poet and aspiring left-back living in Brisbane.

Maria Takolander is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, The End of the World (Giramondo 2014) and Ghostly Subjects (Salt 2009), the former of which was reviewed in forums such as the Los Angeles Review of Books and the latter of which was shortlisted for a Queensland Premier’s Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Best Australian Poems and/or The Best Australian Poetry every year since 2005, and they have been widely anthologised and translated. Radio National aired a program about her poetry in 2015, and she has performed her poetry on TV and at festivals, including the 2017 International Poetry Festival of Medellín in Colombia. In addition, Maria is a prize-winning fiction writer and the author of The Double (Text 2013). Maria is an Associate Professor in Writing and Literature at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria.

Mark Prendergast is a poet and writer living in Preston. His poems have been published in various journals including foam:e, Overland, Rabbit and Communion. A critical essay of his was published in PN Review.

Mary Cresswell is a former science editor and lives on New Zealand’s Kāpiti Coast. Her most recent books are Fish Stories, a collection of ghazals (Canterbury University Press in 2015) and Field Notes: a satirical miscellany (Mākaro Press, Wellington, 2017). She has been published in journals in the US, Australia, NZ, and the UK. For more info, see www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Cresswell,%20Mary Dual citizenship: NZ/US

Matt Hetherington is a writer, music-maker, teacher, and moderate self-promoter based in northern New South Wales. His first all-haiku/senryu book, ‘For Instance’, was published in 2015 by Mulla Mulla Press, and his fifth collection, ‘The Love of the Sun’, was published by Recent Work Press in August 2018. www.matthetherington.net

Miguel Jacq is a French-Australian poet from Melbourne, Australia. In 2013 his poem Nine Year Microwave Sky was shortlisted for the Australian Poetry Science Poetry Prize. In 2016 his poem flower of distant season won the Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Prize, and his poem vitis vinifera was shortlisted for the New Shoots Poetry Prize. He works as a consultant in the murky realm of I.T cyber security.

Writer, poet. www.monicacarroll.com.au

Owen Bullock’s most recent publications are Work & Play (Recent Work Press, 2017) and Semi (Puncher & Wattmann, 2017). He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Canberra.

Rae White is a non-binary poet and writer living in Brisbane. Their poetry collection Milk Teeth won the 2017 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and is published by the University of Queensland Press. Rae’s poem ‘what even r u?’ placed second in the 2017 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Their poetry has been published in Cordite Poetry Review, Meanjin Quarterly, Overland, Rabbit and others. Rae is the editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives.

Rose Hunter’s book of poetry, glass, was published by Five Islands Press in 2017, and her next book of poetry, Anchorage, will be published by Haverthorn Press (UK, March 2020). Born and raised in Australia (mostly), she later lived in Canada for ten years, and then Mexico for almost as long. More information about her can be found at rosehunterwriting.wordpress.com.

Shriram Sivaramakrishnan is a poet from India. He recently completed his MA in Poetry from the UK. His poems have appeared in Lemon Hound, Bird's Thumb, Softblow, Noble/Gas Quarterly, Allegro among others. He tweets at @shriiram.

Stuart Barnes' debut poetry collection Glasshouses (UQP 2016) won the Thomas Shapcott Prize, was commended for the Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award. His poetry has been included in publications such as The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, Island and POETRY (Chicago) and shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. stuartabarnes.wordpress.com / @StuartABarnes

Artist and writer Tony Rickaby lives in London, UK. Recently his writings have appeared in Skelf, North of Oxford, Futures Trading, experiential-experimental-literature and Zoomoozophone. His recent books are Detours, Urban Directions and Unnoticed. www.tonyrickaby.co.uk

Poet and satirist Tug Dumbly has performed his poems, songs and monologues on national radio (as a regular on both Triple J, and the ABC Local Network), and in schools, venues and festivals, both in Australia and abroad. He founded and ran a couple of long-lived and loved Sydney poetry nights, including the legendary Bardflys, at Glebe’s Friend in Hand Hotel. He has released two spoken word CDs through the ABC – Junk Culture Lullabies and Idiom Savant – once won the Spirit of Woodford storytelling award, twice won the Banjo Paterson Prize for comic verse, and three times won the Nimbin World Performance Poetry Cup, most recently in 2017. His work has appeared in Veranda, Offset, Blue Pepper, 4W, Shortfuse (a global anthology of Fusion Poetry), the Neighbourhood Paper and Canberra Times. Both 'Father Faith' and 'Who Put the Mock in Democracy' are included in his first collection of poems, Son Songs, from Flying Islands Press in December 2018.

Dr Victoria Bladen teaches in poetics, literary studies and adaptation at The University of Queensland, Australia. She has published on early modern poetry and Shakespeare on screen, and convenes annual literary summer schools at UQ and abroad. Her creative practice includes poetry, composing music for piano, painting and collage, and she has held four solo exhibitions of her work. The most recent, The Garden (Aspire Gallery 2016), included public readings of her ekphrastic poetry. She is currently working on a volume of poetry entitled Postcards from the Sea.

Zenobia Frost is an editor with Stilts Journal. Her work can be found in Cordite, Scum, Woolf Pack, Australian Poetry Journal and the Hunter Anthology of Contemporary Feminist Poetry. Her book, Salt and Bone, is available from Walleah Press. www.zenobiafrost.com / @zenfrost