Category Bios

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…

Gerard Lewis-Fitzgerald lives in Beaconsfield, Victoria. Retired, he amuses himself by writing poetry, performing in community theatre (having had two of his short plays performed at Gemco, Emerald). He is a member of Baw Baw Arts Alliance, participating in Poetry…

Gregory Piko lives in Canberra, ACT. His writing was awarded First Prize in the New Zealand Poetry Society’s International Haiku Competition and joint Winner in the WB Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia. His most recent haiku collection is breaking my…

Hannah Borrell lives in Albury, NSW, on Wiradjuri land. An emerging writer, she is working towards a Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing. She’s done a bit of everything — cinema shifts, kennel clean-ups, cooking for kids — but…

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.

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…

David Briese is a retired research scientist from Canberra. Since retiring, he and his wife have walked extensively in Australia and overseas. After a recent trip to Japan, he began to experiment with the different forms of Japanese poetry, basing…

Jeannie Haughton began writing puppetry scripts, then studied writing, completing the Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing. She continues to write for theatre, with many produced plays under her belt. Writing short stories, non-fiction pieces and long form poetry, Jeannie…

Glenn McPherson is a Sydney-based poet. He has been widely published in leading national and international journals and anthologies. Recent poems can be found in Modern Haiku, Catchment, InDaily, Eunoia Review and Antipodes.

Colleen Keating is a Sydney-based poet. Colleen won the Phillipa Holland Poetry Competition 2024 (FAW). Colleen has six collections of poetry including the internationally award-winning Hildegard of Bingen: A poetic journey. Colleen writes on Ku-ring-gai land in Sydney and Darkinjung…