Category Bios

Margaret (Margo) Owen Ruckert is a prize-winning poet, with a wide variety of poetry published – Australia and overseas. Two books You Deserve Dessert and musefood explore café culture. Her latest book of tanka Sky on Sea explores Sydney’s waterways. Margaret…

Meg McNena migrated to Australia with Irish parents. The Australian, Quadrant, Antipodes and other journals have published her poetry, and seven of her plays have been staged.

Hazel Hall (Canberra) is a poet, musicologist, editor and international judge of short forms. She recently directed the Poetry at Manning Clark House poetry series in Canberra. She has published five poetry books of poetry and four chapbooks. Hazel and…

Rebecca writes on the sovereign lands of the Wurrundjeri Woi-worrung people. She often reflects on her childhood exploring the Gippsland Lakes by boat. Connection to nature is important to her; as she volunteers at Blackburn Creeklands Advisory Commitee.

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…

L. E. Ward is a prize winning poet from Sydney, Australia. They work full time as a copywriter and editor and their poetry has appeared in many journals both locally and internationally.

Robyn Cairns is a poet who resides in Naarm She experiences great joy in the challenge and love of writing short form and prose poetry to express both her emotional and sensory connection to the world. Robyn has two chapbooks…

Jan O’Loughlin is a poet and teacher living on Wangal land in Sydney. She taught English in Japan from 1985 to 2010, often utilising poetry. Her haiku and tanka have appeared in many Australian and international publications. Jan enjoyed facilitating…

Rohan Buettel lives in Canberra on land whose traditional custodians are the Ngunnawal people. His haiku appear in various Australian and international journals (including Presence, Cattails and The Heron’s Nest). His longer poetry appears in numerous journals, including Rattle, The…

Nicoletta Glod is an emerging Romanian author now residing in Australia. Despite English not being her first language, she has published her debut novel, The Edge of War, now appearing on 12 websites, while balancing her engineering career. With rich…