Category Bios

Stephanie Powell is a poet based in Naarm Her latest collection is Invisible Wasp (Liquid Amber Press, 2024). Short-listed for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards Poetry Prize, she is the recipient of the 2024 Woorilla Poetry Prize. atticpoet.com

Rob McKinnon lives in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. His poetry has been published in Meanjin Quarterly, under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology Forty South Publishing, and other online and print journals. He has been nominated for Best of…

Pat Saunders is from Perth, Western Australia and is a runner-up in this year’s Sejong International Sijo Competition. Her poetry appears in Verge and redrosethorns. Her short fiction features in the recently released anthologies The Heart Will Find A Way,…

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…