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.

Alyson Miller is a prose poet and academic who teaches writing and literature at Deakin University, Melbourne.

A Frances Johnson is a writer and artist. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. Her fourth poetry collection, Save As, is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann. A previous collection, Rendition for Harp and Kalashnikov (Puncher & Wattmann, 2017), was shortlisted in the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature Best New Writing Award and her poem ‘My Father’s Thesaurus’ won the 2020 Peter Porter Poetry Prize.

Amanda Joshua has writing published or forthcoming in Starling, Sweet Mammalian, The Friday Poem, blackmail press, Kate Magazine, Sour Cherry Mag, Turbine, LondonGrip and Poetry NZ. In her spare time, she likes to read and contemplate dropping her law degree.

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 verse novel The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette was published by Shearsman Books UK in 2021. Her latest poetry collections are Some Sketchy Notes on Matter (Recent Work Press, Australia, 2020) and The Told World (selected poetry) Shearsman Books UK 2014. Among other awards and commissions, she has received a Churchill Fellowship, the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, and Australia Council Residencies and Project funding. Recent poems have been shortlisted for the Aesthetica International Creative Writing Prize and longlisted for the Live Canon International Poetry Prize and published in The Yale Review and West Branch USA; Blackbox Manifold, The Long Poem and Tears in the Fence, UK; Plumwood Mountain, Westerley, Southerly, Rabbit and Cordite, Australia. She is a visual artist with work in international public collections.

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.

Anne Elvey lives on Boonwurrung Country in Victoria. Author of On arrivals of breath (2019), White on White (2018), Kin (2014), co-author of Intatto/Intact (with Massimo D’Arcangelo and Helen Moore, 2017), she is managing editor of Plumwood Mountain journal. Anne 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

Anne O’Carroll runs a windswept Writers’ Retreat, (the Creativity Cabin), on the Beara Peninsula in Ireland. She was awarded a Distinction by the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, has had a radio play shortlisted for the PJ O’Connor Awards, and her theatre play was a winner of CAT 10x10 competition, she has also published one short story and now grapples with poetry.

Anthony Lynch writes fiction, poetry and reviews. His work has appeared in various journals and anthologies and been read on ABC Radio National. His books are a short story collection, Redfin, and a poetry collection, Night Train. He works as a senior editor, and he is the publisher for Whitmore Press (https://whitmorepress.com).

Austin Miles is from southeast Ohio. He has poems forthcoming in SAND and published in Misery Tourism, Nauseated Drive, and elsewhere.

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

Beth Spencer’s books include Vagabondage (UWAP). The Party of Life and How to Conceive of a Girl (Random House). She’s won various awards including the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for The Age of Fibs (Spineless Wonders). She lives and writes on Darkinjung land on the Central Coast, NSW. www.bethspencer.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.

Caroline Reid is a plural poet writing for performance and page. She recorded her debut collection SIARAD (EsPress 2020) as an experimental audio book, adapted it for stage and performs it as a spoken word show. An Australian Poetry Slam finalist, Caroline most recently won the Mslexia International Poetry Prize (UK) and Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Poetry.

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

Claire Miranda Roberts is an Australian poet whose work has recently appeared in Westerly Magazine, Communion, and Plumwood Mountain. Her poem ‘Banksia’ came second in the Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize 2020 and her poem ‘Ars Poetica’ was shortlisted in the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2020.

Damen is a Brisbane poet. In 2019, Damen won the WB Yeats Poetry Prize, the Val Vallis Award, the Welsh International Poetry Prize, was joint winner of the Philip Bacon Ekphrasis award and was a finalist in many others. In 2019, he was published in Cordite, Island, StylusLit, Meniscus and Overland.

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 Greenslade writes in Welsh and in English and shares his time between Wales and Romania. This year Steven the Great University Press (Romania) will publish his book Ubiquitext and Muşatinii Press (also Romania) will publish City of Opal Altars.

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.

Dmitry Blizniuk is an author from Ukraine. His most recent poems have appeared in The Pinch, Press53, Magma Poetry, The Nassau Review, Havik, Saint Katherine Review, Star 82, Naugatuck River, Lighthouse, The Gutter, Palm Beach Poetry Festival and many others. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he is also the author of "The Red Fоrest" (Fowlpox Press, 2018). He lives in Kharkov, Ukraine.

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).

Elanna Herbert – is a NSW poet and short story writer. She was born and raised in Canberra and has lived in rural NSW and Perth. Her poetry is found in Not Very Quiet (Issue 5-Earth Poems), Grieve 7, Meniscus 6/2, fourW, Australian Poetry Anthology 6 and Westerly. She was awarded a 2019 Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre fellowship and was runner-up for the Queensland Poetry Festival 2018 Emerging Older Poets Mentorship. Elanna has a PhD in Communication.

Ella Kurz lives on Ngunnawal Country. She is a co-editor of the anthology What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing (Recent Work Press, 2021) and author of My Mother is a Midwife (Library For All, 2019).

Emilie Collyer lives on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Her work is published and produced widely. Her debut full-length poetry collection Do you have anything less domestic? (Vagabond Press 2022) won the inaugural Five Islands Press Prize and her plays have won and nominated for multiple awards including Patrick White, Green Room and Malcolm Roberston. Emilie is a current PhD candidate at RMIT where she is researching feminist creative practice.

Emma Simington is a writer living on stolen Yugambeh country. Her poetry is published by Australian Poetry and The Moth Magazine, among others. In 2021, she shortlisted for the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award. Emma is a proud transgender lesbian who is neurodivergent and has a learning disability. She loves women, coffee, and not finishing important tasks.

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).

Francine is an academic lawyer living in rural Victoria. Her background is in dairy farming.

Gabriel Robertson is a a Brisbane based poet currently studying Writing at the University of Queensalnd. He was the winner of the RD Milns Antiquities Museum's 2018 ekphrastic poetry competition and his work has been featured in 'An Anthology of Vowels' and 'This Zine is Haunted'.

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

Hellai Gul is a writer/reader of words in various forms, living on sovereign Burramattagal land. They are currently writing stories, poems, and a dissertation at the University of Sydney. They can be found at Insta: @hellai.gul / Twitter: @hellaigul.

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.

Iain is an Aotearoa New Zealand poet who has published several poetry collections, has been nominated in the UK for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection. Poems have been published or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Poetry, The New York Times, Poet Lore, Wild Court, Molly Bloom, New Humanist, The Scores Journal, Stand, Agenda, Abridged, New Statesman, Prototype, Southerly, Landfall, Cordite and Poetry Wales. THE INTAGLIO POEMS was published by Hesterglock Press (UK) 2017.

Isabella G. Mead is a poet from Melbourne. Her background is in academic publishing and her poetry has appeared in Meanjin, Island, Rabbit, Cordite Poetry Review and Going Down Swinging. In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. She lives, writes and raises her young family on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people.

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.

Jackson was born in Cumbria, England, and lives in Australia and New Zealand. Her four full-length collections include A coat of ashes (Recent Work Press 2019) and The emptied bridge (Mulla Mulla Press 2019). Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, notably the Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry. Her awards include the Ros Spencer Poetry Prize. In 2018 she completed her PhD in Writing at Edith Cowan University, winning the University Research Medal and two other awards. During 2018 and 2019 she taught English in China. She works as a poetry editor and casual academic. thepoetjackson.com

Jake Goetz's first collection, meditations with passing water (Rabbit), was shortlisted for the QLD Premier's Award in 2019. He is currently undertaking a PhD at The Writing and Society Research Centre, WSU.

Randall Brett lives and works in the New York City area. Previous publications include Euphemism, and Poetry Breakfast.

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

Jane Frank’s latest chapbook is Wide River (Calanthe Press, 2020). Her work is widely published and anthologised, most recently in Westerly, StylusLit, Shearsman, Burrow, Live Encounters, Poetry for the Planet (Litoria Press, 2021), Grieve vol 9 (Hunter Writers Centre, 2021) and Meridian (APWT/Drunken Boat, 2020). She lives in Brisbane and teaches creative and professional writing at Griffith University.

Janet Jiahui Wu is a Hong-Kongese-Chinese-Australian visual artist and writer of poetry and fiction. She has published in various Australian literary magazines such as Voiceworks, Cordite Poetry Review, Mascara Literary Review, Rabbit Poetry, Plumwood Poetry, and so on. She currently resides in Adelaide, South Australia.

Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice, and Dean of Graduate Research, at the University of Canberra. Author or editor of 30 scholarly volumes, she has also published 18 poetry collections and artist books, and is co-editor of the bilingual (Mandarin/English) anthology Open Windows: Contemporary Australian Poetry. Her recent poetry collections are Moving Targets (Recent Work Press, 2018); and, with Shé Hawke, Flight Mode (RWP 2020).

Jena Woodhouse’s publications include two full-length poetry collections and four poetry chapbooks, the most recent being News from the Village: Travels in Rural Greece (Picaro Poets 2021). She has benefited from writing retreats at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, County Monaghan, Ireland, in 2017, 2018 and 2019. In 2020, 2015 and 2013 her poems were shortlisted in the Montreal International Poetry Prize (Canada).

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.

Jennifer Russell lives in County Cork, Ireland. She set up and co-runs Hungry Hill Writing, a writers’ group which hosts an international poetry competition every year. She has been included in a number of poetry journals and anthologies and in 2019 her first pamphlet was published by Grey Hen Press.

For most of my life I have been an artist, focusing my arts practice in photography, sculpture and video installation. In 2012 I began a dedicated poetry practice. Since then my poetry has been published various journals including Meanjin, Cordite, the Australian Poetry Journal, Verity La, Plumwood Mountain, and various anthologies, including Australian Award Winning Writing 2017. In 2016 I won the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize.

Jill Jones lives on unceded Kaurna land. Her latest book is Acrobat Music: New and Selected Poems, to be published in 2023. Other recent books include Wild Curious Air, winner of the 2021 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and A History Of What I’ll Become, shortlisted for the 2021 Kenneth Slessor Award and the 2022 John Bray Award. Her work is widely published in periodicals in Australia, Canada, Ireland, NZ, Singapore, Sweden, UK, and USA and has been translated into a number of languages including Chinese, French, Italian, Czech, Macedonian and Spanish. She currently writes and teaches freelance, and previously has worked as an academic, arts administrator, journalist, and book editor.

Jo Langdon lives and writes on unceded Wadawurrung land. She is the author of two poetry collections, Snowline (Whitmore Press, 2012) and Glass Life (Five Islands Press, 2018), and was a 2018 Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Sozopol Fiction Seminars fellow. Her recent writing is also published in journals including Cordite, Island, Meanjin and Overland.

John Baylis Post’s poems have been published in England, Wales, France, Italy, and Ireland, and he has won or been shortlisted in a number of international poetry competitions. He has edited many Hungry Hill Writing publications and has helped organise competitions, events, and the writers’ group.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in the Homestead Review, Poetry East and Columbia Review with work upcoming in Harpur Palate, the Hawaii Review and North Dakota Quarterly.

British born; lives and works in Perth, WA.

Julie is a practicing artist and psychotherapist based in the unspoiled natural surroundings of the Beara peninsula, West Cork. She has been involved with Hungry Hill Writers over the last several years and she took to writing poetry after attending regular ‘open mike’ sessions of spoken word poetry, hosted by O'Bheal. Over the last few years her commitment to writing has gained parity with her lifelong engagement with art making. Julie’s work has featured in Hungry Hills Writers meet Politics competition. She has also been an invited poet for O’Bheal’s Winter Warmer annual festival of spoken word.

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

Keith Nunes (Aotearoa New Zealand) has had poetry, fiction, haiku and visuals published around the globe. He creates ethereal manifestations as a way of communicating with the outside world.

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.

Kristian Radford lives in Melbourne. His work has recently appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, swim meet lit mag, Westerly and Best of Australian Poems 2022. He works as a secondary school teacher.

Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and was involved in the poetry worlds of that city and Sydney through the 1970s and 80s. In 2006 he moved to England, living in Faversham, Kent until 2018 when he returned to Sydney. His most recent books are Homer Street (Giramondo 2020), Selected Poems 1971-2017 (Shearsman 2018), No Particular Place To Go (Shearsman 2017).

[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.

Louise Wakeling’s third poetry collection, Paragliding in a War Zone, was published by Puncher & Wattmann (2009). Her most recent poetry has appeared in Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016), Live Encounters (2018) and Mountain Secrets (2019). She is currently exploring power dynamics within the family and in Australian society in a novel set in Sydney in the 50s-70s.

Luoyang Chen currently resides in Kalgoorlie on Wongatha country. He is the author of Flow (Red River, 2023), a book dedicated to kindness, a book on Language, power, narratives, and so on. He writes poetry.

Margaret Owen Ruckert, Sydney educator and poet, is a previous Society of Women Writers NSW winner. Her collections You Deserve Dessert, and musefood which won an IP Best Poetry Award, explore café society. She holds workshops as Facilitator of Discovery Writers, Hurstville. Her latest book Sky on Sea features tanka.

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 who lives in Preston, works in Reservoir and barracks for Hawthorn, all in Wurundjeri country. His poems and essays have been published in Overland, Rabbit, foam:e, Rochford Street, PN Review, Tears in the Fence and elsewhere.

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, and idler. His sixth collection, ‘Kaleidoscopes’, was published by Recent Work Press. Current inspirations include: raw garlic, vinyl played very loud through big black speakers, and the Corpse Pose. https://recentworkpress.com/product-author/matt-hetherington/

Maxine Backus is English and lives near Zurich. She studied philosophy in London and Oxford and has an M.Phil. in Modern Poetry and an MFA. She has given many readings of her poetry and is passionate about the art of reading poems aloud. She has had modest success in competitions and been published in anthologies.

Michael J. Leach (@m_jleach) lives on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country and works at Monash University School of Rural Health. His poems reside in Cordite, Rabbit, Meniscus, Plumwood Mountain, the Medical Journal of Australia, the 2021 Hippocrates Prize Anthology, and elsewhere. Michael’s debut poetry collection is Chronicity (Melbourne Poets Union, 2020).

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

Author of five books of poetry.

Nellie Le Beau's writing appears in Cordite Poetry Review, Westerly, The Suburban Review, Rabbit, Stilts, Moving Words, and elsewhere. A Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, her poems have twice shortlisted for the Fair Australia Prize. 'Long Haul' is part of her debut collection, Inheritance, the winner of the 2020 Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poetry, scheduled to be published in October, 2021.

Owen Bullock has published poetry, haiku, tanka and fiction; most recently, Uma rocha enorme que anda à roda (A big rock that turns around), translations of tanka into Portuguese by Francisco Carvalho (Temas Originais, 2021); Summer Haiku (Recent Work Press, 2019) and Work & Play (Recent Work Press, 2017). He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Canberra. He has a website for his research: https://poetry-in-process.com/ @OwenTrail @ProcessPoetry

Pam Schindler is a poet living at Blackmans Bay, lutruwita/Tasmania. Her work has appeared in Australian magazines and anthologies, and in her collection, A sky you could fall into (Post Pressed, 2010). Recent work appeared in Australian Poetry Anthology 2021, foam:e, StylusLit, and (fleetingly) on the footpath in Adelaide as part of the “Raining poetry in Adelaide” project.

Pearl is a writer based in Canberra, Australia.

Philip Neilsen's sixth collection of poetry is Wildlife of Berlin (UWAP). He has won prizes including the Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award 2018, and teaches poetry writing at the University of Queensland.

Rachael Mead is a South Australian poet, writer and arts reviewer. Her most recent poetry collection is The Flaw in the Pattern (UWA Publishing 2018) and her debut novel The Application of Pressure was published by Affirm Press in 2020. Reality Check was first published in Social Alternatives Vol 39:3 2020.

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.

Robert Beveridge (he/him) makes noise (xterminal.bandcamp.com) and writes poetry in Akron, OH. Recent/upcoming appearances in The Sparrow's Trombone, Three Line Poetry, and Failed Haiku, among others.

Robert Verdon writes poetry and prose. He was shortlisted in both the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize 2021 and the ACU [Australian Catholic University] Prize for Poetry 2021. His latest poetry book is A spiral life (Canberra: Resurgam, 2020).

Rose Hunter’s book of poetry, glass, was published by Five Islands Press in 2017, and Anchorage was published by Haverthorn Press, UK, in 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.

Rozanna Lilley is an author and academic. Her essays and poems have been widely published. Her hybrid prose-poetry memoir Do Oysters Get Bored? A Curious Life (UWA Publishing, 2018) was shortlisted for the National Biography Award (2019). A chapbook, The Lady in the Bottle (London: Eyewear), is forthcoming in 2022.

Sam Morley is a poet whose work has been published in a number of journals including Cordite, Red Room Poetry, Canberra Times, The Australian, Overland, Westerly, Southerly, Plumwood Mountain, Takahe (NZ) and Antipodes (US) and has appeared on noted shortlists including the ACU Poetry Prize and the Montreal International Poetry Prize. He is the 2022 recipient of the Tina Kane Emergent Writer Award at the Mildura Writer’s Festival. His debut collection, Earshot, is out now through Puncher and Wattmann

Sean holds a BFA in Creative and Professional Writing. In 2019, he was shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. He currently interns for Ruckus Slam Brisbane and co-produces Ruckus Youth. Find more at www.callmemariah.com.

Shane Strange’s writing has appeared in various print and online journals in Australia and internationally. He is the author of two chapbooks Notes to the Reader and Dark Corner. His first collection of poetry All Suspicions Have Been Confirmed was released in late 2020. He is publisher at Recent Work Press and was Festival Director of the Poetry on the Move poetry festival from 2018-2020.

Shari Kocher is the author of Foxstruck and Other Collisions (Puncher & Wattmann, 2021) and The Non-Sequitur of Snow (Puncher & Wattmann 2015), which was Highly Commended in the 2015 Anne Elder Awards (Australia). Recent awards include The Peter Steele Poetry Prize (2019), The Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award (2018) and The University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize (2016). She holds a PhD. From Melbourne University, where she sometimes works as a teaching associate in the Creative Writing program. www.sharikocher.com

Sheila O'Neil is a member of the Hungry Hill Writers group in West Cork, Ireland.

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.

Steph Amir is an emerging poet with a background in policy and research, including as a zoologist. In 2021, she was a Writeability Fellow at Writers Victoria, a fellowship for disabled writers. Her poems have been published in Australia and internationally, including in Australian Poetry Journal, Burrow, Plumwood Mountain, StylusLit, TEXT and others. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @steph_kaymir, and recently started a blog at http://stephamir.blogspot.com.

Stephen Martin is a denizen of Hungry Hill writer’s group. He began asssociating with Jennifer, John et al some 17 years ago and in spite of moving from Beara to Belfast has maintained his attendance in the group by zoom. He is 69 years old though his poems are much younger.

Steve Brock’s poetry has been published in journals in Australia and overseas including Antipodes, Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Poetry NZ, Quadrant and Westerly and in translation in journals in Spain and China. Steve has published four collections of poetry including Live at Mr Jake’s (Wakefield Press, 2020) and Double Glaze (Five Islands Press, 2013) and is the co-translator from Spanish to English of the anthologies Desarraigo: 18 Poetas Transfronterizos, (Nautilus Ediciones, 2021) and Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual Anthology (Interactive Press, 2014).

Stu Hatton is a writer, editor and educator based in central Victoria. His work has appeared in The Age, Best Australian Poems, Cordite, Overland, Rabbit, Southerly, Westerly and elsewhere.

Stuart Barnes’s Glasshouses (UQP 2016) won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was commended for the FAW Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the ASAL Mary Gilmore Award. His poems appear in The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, The Moth and POETRY (Chicago) etc, have been shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. With Charmaine Papertalk Green he guest-edited Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry’s FORM issue. Twitter/Instagram: @StuartABarnes stuartabarnes.com

Suzanne Verrall lives in Adelaide, Australia. Her flash fiction, essays and poetry appear in Atlas and Alice, Flash Frontier, Archer Magazine, Lip Magazine, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Australian Poetry Journal, and others.

Terry Nguyen is a writer and poet from Garden Grove, California.

Thuy On is a freelance arts journalist, editor and poet who's written for publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Australian, The Age/SMH, Artshub and Books and Publishing. She's also the books editor of The Big Issue. Her debut collection of poetry, Turbulence, was published in 2020 by UWAP.

Tim Loveday is a poet, a writer, an editor and a clown-lark. As the recipient of a 2020 Next Chapter Wheeler Centre Fellowship and a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship, his work aims to challenge toxic masculinity in Australia. His poetry/prose have appeared in Meanjin, Foam:e, Cordite, The Big Issue, Babyteeth, Meniscus, Text Journal, and The Big Smoke, among others, and he is currently developing a podcast with FBI Radio. A Neurodivergent dog parent, he is the content editor at Hyperviolet Designs, the verse editor for The Creative Hub of Extinction Rebellion and IPEd’s Student Adviser (Victoria Branch). Originally from rural NSW, Tim currently resides in North Melbourne, traditional land of the Wurundjeri people, where he studies Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. As an avid fan of the full stop, he’s afraid of sentences longer than 6 words; this bio is trying. Instagram: @t.j.loveday Twitter: @TimLovedaypoet Website: https://www.timloveday.com/

Tom Brami is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is currently living in Melbourne.

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