Category Bios

Coral Carter

Coral Carter now lives in Perth but grew up in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and Port Augusta, South Australia and spent many years living and working in outback communities of both states. She has published two books ‘Descended from Thieves’ Mulla…

Warrick Wynne

Warrick Wynne is an Australian poet who lives between two great bays on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne. He has three published poetry collections and has been included in a wide range of magazines and journals. His poetry page…

Glenn McPherson

Glenn McPherson is a Sydney based poet. He has been widely published in leading Journals and Anthologies in Australia and Internationally. He was a finalist in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Competition (2023). Long listed in the Bournemouth Writing Festival Poetry…

Pip Griffin

Pip Griffin is a Leichhardt, NSW, poet. Her verse narrative, Virginia & Katherine: The Secret Diaries (Pohutukawa Press 2021) won the Society of Women Writers NSW Poetry Award 2022. Her latest poetry collection is Opus: a life with music. Her…

Jo McInerney

Jo McInerney is an English and Literature teacher working in Gippsland. She has written haiku and tanka since 2007 and longer western forms since childhood. She has been published in Australia and overseas.

Tuyet Van Do

Tuyet Van Do lives in Melbourne, Australia. She loves poetry and writes whenever inspiration strikes. Her work has been widely published in various journals and anthologies. She was nominated for the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems (2022), and was the…

Marilyn Humbert

Marilyn Humbert lives on Darug and GuriNgai land in Berowra, NSW Australia. Her tanka and haiku appear in many International and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions, published in anthologies, journals…

Clara Mejak-Rizzi

Clara Mejak-Rizzi was born in Heyfield, Gippsland. She graduated from Melbourne University and has worked in many fields of education. She now leads meditation gatherings and enjoys dancing and reading. Her poems have been published in:- Leaf, Sparx, Grieve &…

Hazel Hall

Hazel Hall is an Australian poet, international judge and musicologist who enjoys collaborating with other artists. She has published four books, three chapbooks and a radio play in sonnet form. Featherfall, a conversation about bird life written in collaboration with…

Keitha Keyes

Keitha Keyes lives in a tiny house in Sydney, filled with her husband’s model ships and her many antique irons and trivets. She enjoys reading and writing Japanese short form poetry. Her work is published in many print and online…