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Cassandra Atherton is a writer and composer who currently tutors in the English department at the University of Melbourne. She has been published in many journals including Mean/in, Island and Antithesis. She is in her final year of a PhD examining Gwen Harwood's pseudonymous poetry and subpersonality theory.
Inez Baranay is the author of six books of fiction and non-fiction as well as numerous contributions to anthologies and journals. She teaches creative writing at Griffith University, where she is writing her PhD. In September 2002 she returns to India as an Asialink Literature Resident.
www.ozemail.com.au/-inezb
Luke Beesley is an emerging writer of poetry and short fiction. He lives in Toowong, Brisbane.
Joanne Burns is a Sydney poet. Her most recent book is aerial photography (Five Islands Press 1999). She is finalising a new collection—"all of me".
Janie Conway-Herron lectures in writing at Southern Cross University. In a previous life she worked as a musician and performer in theatre and in various bands. Her writing engages with issues of belonging and identity particularly within an Australian context and she writes both fiction and theoretical analysis. Her research interests reflect a passionate interest in human rights particularly the intersection of race, gender and culture and her work covers a wide range of genres including fiction, fictocriticism, writing for theatre and songwriting.
Suzanne Day is 24 and has piles of midnight musings under her bed. She hopes to publish these, after editing them in the morning. She has been previously published in Poetrix, From the Mountaintop and Voiceworks, amongst others. Her poems explore contemporary subjects and provide interesting reading in Australian poetry
Rhonda Ellis was born in Sydney and was active in the NSW Builders Labourers Federation. Since moving to the Byron Bay area in 1976 she has served on local government, become a grandmother and graduated from Southern Cross University with a BA (Hons). Rhonda has published a short memoir in Coastlines, of which she is an editor, on Eve Langley and Narratology in Colloquy and on alternate media in Transformations. She is currently writing a PhD thesis at SCU in the form of a novel based on her research into the Rainbow Region.
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Nicholas Grapsias is studying Creative Writing at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur.
Cherie Imlah is a poet and scriptwriter. Her poetry book The Dark Side was published with a grant from the Aboriginal Arts Board. She lives in the Northern Rivers of NSW where her Aboriginal kin come from, on five acres of tall timbers, with birds and native wildlife. Her black cat, Koorie, is a cherished companion who is gifted with ESP.
Dot Jensen researched Grace Perry and the Literature Board for her PhD. She also wrote several books on teaching English and Poetry. She has recently married a retired bridge engineer and discovered iriternational cruising. She reads avidly novels by academic women and occasionally dreams of writing one.
Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of five books, including the poetry collection, World as Dictionary, (Carnegie Melon University Press) and Space (Algonquin Books/Penguin), a memoir about growing up in Florida during the moon race. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the U.K., Australia, and the United States in such magazines as London Magazine, Ambit, the Southern Review, LiNQ the Georgia Review, and the Yale Review among others. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin where she directs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
Nigel Krauth is Head of the Creative Writing Program at Griffith University, Queensland. He has published novels, short stories and essays, and has had dramatic works performed. His awards include the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the New South Wales State Literary Award for Fiction. Nigel is co- editor (with Tess Brady) of the on-line creative writing teaching journal TEXT
<http://www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text >
Jenny Ledgar has had a number of short stories and articles published and has taught creative writing and literary theory at Southern Cross University.
She is currently living in Victoria where she is completing a novel as part of a PhD project.
Peter Le Messurier is a third year BA in Criminology and Criminal Justice student at Griffith University, and first year Associate Degree in Law student at Southern Cross University, freelance journalist, and full-time single parent.
Miriel Lenore is an Adelaide poet whose latest book was Travelling alone together: in the footsteps of Edward John Eyre, Spinifex Press 1998.
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Wendy Morgan has served as Chair of the Queensland Poets' Association, and twice judged the Queensland Premiers Prize for Poetry. A number of her poems have been published in Australian literary magazines including Westerly, Mattoid, LiNQ Imago, Redoubt, Famous Reporter, The Age, The Brisbane Review, Social Alternatives, The Courier Mail, Famous Reporter, Takahe and Verandah.
A. Mary Murphy is an Alberta poet currently at work on her doctoral dissertation. Her poems appear in a variety of journals, including Planet, The Welsh Internationalist, Canadian Literature, Wascana Review, and Other Voices.
Jan Owen is a South Australian poet whose fifth book of verse "Timedancing"
is due out with Five Islands Press in November 2002. She was a guest reader at the Maastricht International Poetry Nights in June.
Wendy Perry has been a drama teacher in Australian high schools, Director of The Multicultural Education Centre (SCAt) and broadcaster on community radio. She currently resides in Byron Bay and is a student of writing at Southern Cross University.
Jenny Powell-Chalmers lives in New Zealand, has two books in print and a third due later in the year. Jenny has been published in various literary journals, and recently organised and edited "Five Bells" featuring a look at New Zealand poetry.
Dove Rengger-Thorpe is a research student at Southern Cross University. She is interested in the intersection between truth and fiction, public and private lives. Her thesis explores the interplay between autobiographical authority and appropriation.
Maria Simms is a published writer and experienced editor. She teaches creative writing and textual theory at Southern Cross University where she is currently writing a novel for her PhD. In her spare time she sits on an impossible block of land she co-owns at the top of a mountain. She gazes at the weather blowing in from the Great Dividing Range and wonders where to put the water tank- and how it all came about.
Jim Tulip was Associate Professor of English Literature at Sydney University until retirement in 1997. He taught modern Australian and American poetry, and reviewed in this field widely. He is currently comparing Les Murray and David Malouf for divergent Australian spiritualities. He lives at Woodford in the Blue Mountains.
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Carolyn van Langenberg has written a trilogy about several angles on love and history from the 1940s to the turn of the century. Two of the three are set in both Australia and Malaysia. The first was fish lips, published by Indra Publishing 2001. The second, the teetollar's wake in the country, will be released in October 2002.
Heather Wearne is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Southern Cross University where she was the foundational appointment in Humanities and responsible for establishing a Humanities programme at the University. Her research work is in the areas of Auto/biographical theory and practice, contemporary fiction and the teaching of textual theory to. creative arts students.
Ouyang Yu, Australian poet and novelist of Chinese origins, whose most recent publications include his English novel the eastern slope chronicle (published by Brandl and Schlesinger) and his English poetry book (published by Wild Peony in Sydney).
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