Category Bios

Megan Cartwright is a Canberra-based author and Literature teacher, living and working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country. Her poetry has featured in Contemporary Verse 2, Cordite Poetry Review and Island Magazine. She is the 2025 winner of the Tina Kane…

Peter Groves resides in an apartment on Bidjigal land (Mascot, Sydney) with a partial view of the city. Since retiring in 2023, Peter now finds he has the time, mental space and enthusiasm to do something with this compulsion to…

Kevin Gillam is a West Australian poet, with four books of poetry published, the most recent being the moon’s reminder, Ginninderra Press, 2018. He works as a free-lance ‘cellist and ‘cello teacher and is currently the Chairperson for the OOTA…

Pat Saunders is from Perth, Western Australia, and was a runner-up in the 2024 Sejong International Sijo Competition. Her poetry appears in Catchment – Poetry of Place, Verge and redrosethorns; short fiction in the anthologies The Heart Will Find A…

Madhuri Pillai discovered Haiku and related forms in 2011. Her work has been published in various local and international journals. She loves bush trekking and is passionate about animal welfare. Madhuri lives in Melbourne with her family.

Richard Clarke lives on Wallumettagal land in Sydney. He has had poetry published in Australia and the USA. He is currently attempting to complete his first collection, Photographic Memories.

Maeve Archibald live in Adelaide SA. She has been practising the Japanese poetic genres since 1997. She finds their concise aspect very satisfying. She belongs to the Bindii Zoom group. Many of her haiku have been published, along with some…

Regina (Gina) lives in northwest country Tasmania, near the beach. Love, dreams and other disasters are explored. Writing and poetry is part of her daily arts practice, out of her studio by the creek. Gina is published in various short-form…

Kim Waters lives in Melbourne. She has a Master of Arts in creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Cordite, The Australian, Going Down Swinging Online, Under the Radar and The Shanghai Literary Review.

Mitch Browne is a poet and bricklayer from Dharug land in the Blue Mountains. His work has been published in ZineWest, Quadrant, Grieve, JAMA, medmic, OfTheBook, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere. He was awarded the ZineWest Best Poem award in 2023,…