Category Bios

Les Wicks — His “career” in poetry has seen him strolling through a minefield, performing at a festival financed by a mob boss & to a one-person audience in a remote country town. He’s read in a gold mine, a…

Peter Roberts lives in Melbourne. He enjoys poetry “that bounces and surprises, and that most of all is accessible”. He has been published or had work accepted for publication in a range of national and international journals, most recently Quadrant,…

Maria Bonar’s writing has been published in Award Winning Australian Writing, Creatrix, Rochford Street Review, Poetry d’Amour, Verge, in anthologies and online. She won the Creatrix Poetry Prize 2024. A former CEO, social health researcher and parole officer, often travelling…

Pauline Cleary lives in regional Victoria, on Yorta Yorta country. She writes poetry and short fiction. Her poems may be found on the Australian Children’s Poetry site, in the NSW School Magazine, Poetica Christi anthologies and in previous Catchment editions.

Jamie Castellas is a teacher, writer and former film projectionist from Melbourne Recently, she won the Melton Short Short Award and placed third in the Peter Cowan Short Story Competition. She has been shortlisted for: Peter Carey Short Story Award,…

Gabrielle Higgins is a poet and bookbinder (@mudbrickpoet) dividing her time between Gadigal Country in Sydney and living off grid on Wurundjeri Country in the Yarra Valley, Victoria. Her poetry publications include Cordite, Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, Paper Wasp, Whiptail,…

Daphne Harrison was born and lived a long time in NSW, now resident in Central Gippsland, Victoria. People say she should be retired, but she still works part time to fund her occasional trips to UK and Ireland. She has…

Kris Hemensley was the co-ordinator of Collected Works Bookshop (now Book Treehouse). His last book was Your Scratch Entourage (Cordite, 2016); plus a chapbook From the Blue Notebook (Now Orries Press, 2022). His ‘Topography’ work is part of a larger…

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…

Samantha Sirimanne Hyde was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in the unceded land of the Wallumedegal people in NSW. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing, and has published free verse, short fiction and a novel, ‘The Lyrebird’s…