Category Bios

Louise Hopewell is a Naarm/Melbourne-based poet, playwright and songwriter. Louise is a proud member of the Fringe Myrtles haiku group and her haiku awards include first place in the inaugural John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku, 2020. When not writing,…

wanda amos lives in Old Bar, NSW. Her haiku and tanka have been published in several online blogs, forums and journals. Now retired, she enjoys travel, beach and bush walking, photography and haiku writing. Her Websites: wandas wandarings on Facebook…

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 in 2022, and was…

Agi Dobson lives in Korumburra, amongst the rolling hills of South Gippsland, Victoria, and is inspired to write most days. Her poetry, described as visual and emotionally charged, regularly appears in small press magazines. Agi published her first collection of…

Allan Padgett lives in Perth, on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja. He has worked with First Nations People in joint management of national parks and building capacity on Aboriginal-owned pastoral leases in the Kimberley and Pilbara. Lumbering Towards Infinity is his first…

Anne Zito is a Melbourne poet and writer. She pays her respects to the traditional owners of country, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. Anne writes poetry and short stories and is currently writing her first children’s novel. Her poems have been published…

Andrew Hede is an emeritus professor living as a hermit in a retirement village adjacent to a national park on the outskirts of Sydney. He teaches and writes about stillness meditation. He has published haiku in three Australian anthologies and…

Alex Robertson lives in the Adelaide region. Involved in creative writing since 1984, he has placed in local wiring competitions & has had work in anthologies since 2012. Alex participates in SA writing groups and is a free verse poetry…

Hazel Hall is an Australian poet, musicologist and editor living on Ngunnawal and Ngambi land. She recently directed the Poetry at Manning Clark House poetry series in Canberra. She has published five poetry books and four chapbooks. Hazel and Moya…

Hemat Malak is an accountant and poet, writing from Picton, NSW. Hemat is a Best New Poets nominee, and her poems have appeared in places including Rattle, Rochford Street Review, Catchment  – Poetry of Place, Locative Magazine, Short Stories Unlimited…