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.

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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.

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.

[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

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.

Mark Prendergast is a poet living in Preston. His poems have been published in various journals including Overland, paper wasp, Rabbit and Communion. 'Crossing Two Rivers' 13, 14 & 15 are the concluding poems in a sequence.

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.

Rose Hunter's book of poetry, glass, was published by Five Islands Press (2017). She is from Queensland, lived in Canada for ten years, and now spends a lot of time in Mexico. More information about her can be found at Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me Home (rosehunterblog.wordpress.com). "turkey vulture quiz" was previously published in Entropy, Dec 2017 (USA).

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' Glasshouses (UQP 2016) won the Thomas Shapcott Prize, was commended for the Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award. From 2013-2017 he was poetry editor for Tincture Journal. 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

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