by Cate Kennedy
Yes, I could wonder about that.
BIOGRAPHIES
BIOGRAPHIES
Catherine Bateson is a poet and a writer for children and young adults. She has recently spent three months in Paris on an Australia Council funded residency and is writing a novel for young adults based on that time. Her latest novel, Star, was published by Omnibus Books.
Jon Bauer is a counsellor and writer. His first novel Rocks in the Belly won the 2011 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and published in eight countries. He is finalizing his second novel.
Tony Birch is a widely published short fiction writer and the author of the acclaimed novel, Blood (UQP 2011) which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. He teaches in the Creative Writing program at Melbourne University.
Carmel Bird is a novelist, short story writer and anthologist, who has written nine literary novels, six collections of short fiction, three books on the art of writing, and edited six anthologies of essays and stories. carmelbird. com
Kevin Brophy is the author of thirteen books of poetry, fiction and essays. He was a founding co-editor of Going Down Swinging from 1980–1994. He teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne.
Allison Browning’s work has appeared in Best Australian Poems, Going Down Swinging, and Kill Your Darlings. Her work has been shortlisted for the Carmel Bird Short Fiction Award, the Aesthetica UK Award and for the Martha Richardson Poetry Prize. ‘These Bones’ is an extract from her novel-length manuscript, being developed under an Australian Society of Authors awarded mentorship.
Catherine Cole has written novels, poetry, non-fiction and memoir. Her short stories have appeared in a range of anthologies including Best Australian Stories. She is an academic at the University of Wollongong.
David Francis’ Agapanthus Tango was published in seven languages. Stray Dog Winter was named Novel of the Year in the Australian Literature Review and won an American Library Association Prize for Literature. His short fiction has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Griffith Review, Meanjin and Harvard Review. straydogwinter.com
Irma Gold has written three children’s books, her short fiction has been widely published in anthologies and journals, and her short story collection, Two Steps Forward, was either shortlisted for or won a number of prizes. She is Convener of Editing at the University of Canberra, and the recent recipient of a one-off award for Outstanding Service to Writing and Publishing in the ACT and Region. irmagold. com
Debi Hamilton is a psychologist, writer and poet. Her first poetry collection was published by Melbourne Poets Union in 2013. One of her love poems appeared in Australian Love Poems, and was subsequently aired on Radio National’s ‘Poetica’.
Lisa Jacobson: The Sunlit Zone won the 2014 Adelaide Festival John Bray Poetry Award and received four national shortlistings. Her fiction has won HQ Short Story Competition, placed in The Age Short Story Award. Her stories have been published in Best Short Stories and Stand Magazine (U.K.), Penguin Australian Summer Stories, She’s Fantastical and Heat. Her new poetry collection is South in the World.
Sally-Ann Jones grew up in the Western Australian wheatbelt before climate change and land clearing caused 25–30% decrease in rainfall in the area. That landscape informs her writing, which includes the novel Stella’s Sea (UWAP, 2013).
Sharon Kernot’s first novel, Underground Road, was published by Wakefield Press in 2013. She has a collection of poetry and one of short stories, both published by Ginninderra Press. She teaches part-time in the English and Creative Writing Department at Flinders University.
Natasha Lester is the award winning author of two novels, What is Left Over, After and If I Should Lose You. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and Overland, Wet Ink and indigo journals.
Kathryn Lomer’s Two Kinds of Silence won the 2008 NSW Premier’s Award for poetry. Her young adult novel, What Now, Tilda B? won the Margaret Scott Prize, and her short fiction collection, Camera Obscura, was shortlisted in the Queensland Premier’s Awards. Her latest poetry collection is Night Writing (UQP, 2014).
Danielle McGee is studying Honours in Creative Writing at University of Western Australia. She has a Bachelor of Education (K–7) and has worked as an early childhood teacher. She now works for Fremantle Press creating teaching programs to accompany children’s and young adult fiction releases as well as editing her university’s creative arts journal, Trove.
Susan Midalia’s A History of the Beanbag (UWAP 2007) was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Awards, and An Unknown Sky (UWAP 2012) was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.
Megg Minos’ story ‘Bern’s Wedding’ won the Visible Ink Short Story Competition, ‘River Tide’ was commended in the My Brother Jack Awards and the Australia Council supported her to produce her novella, Lens. She is working on a novel.