Category Bios

Tuyet Van Do lives in Melbourne, Australia.  She loves arranging flowers, painting, poetry and writes whenever inspiration strikes. Her work has appeared in various publications both online and in print. She was nominated for the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems…

Kate King writes on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country in the ACT. Birds, animals, waterways and forests inspire her poetry, which has been published in Australian and international journals.

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…

Kate Olivieri lives in a mountaintop village with a handsome young rebel and mini rebellino in the beautiful Northern Rivers, NSW, Bundjalung Nation country. A poet of many years’ standing, her work is published in Hunter Writers’ Centre Grieve anthologies.…

Alfreed Fandangle was born and raised, and continues to live, in South-East Queensland. His poetry is rich with reference, literary history, high and low culture, pop music, and more. It has been described as, ‘ricocheting around the page like sonic…

Thomas Simpson is a poet and sound artist based in Western Australia. He is a PhD candidate at Deakin University, completing a project combining walking, embodiment, and soundscape ecology in south-west WA. His first collection of poetry, Bone Picker, was…

Rachel Skellett is an aspiring poet living in Goomburrup, Bunbury, Western Australia. Rachel acknowledges the Wardandi Noongar Aboriginal people who have lived in the South West for over 45 000 years. Inspired by their knowledge of the land, native flora…

Jay Young is a freelance writer and editor who lives between Sydney and Istanbul, and he is currently studying professional writing and visual culture at Curtin University. His first poem, ‘Down’, was published in the University of Canberra’s Vice Chancellor’s…

Fred Duncan has worked as a botanist in many parts of Australia – since 1977 in Tasmania. He has strong interests in Gondwanic connections of landscapes and flora, and with his wife Mercedes (from Argentina) has travelled regularly to South…

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, has published free verse, short fiction and a novel, The Lyrebird’s Cry.…