Australia

Stuart Cooke is an Australian poet, essayist, and translator. Cooke has published four collections of poetry, including The Grass Is Greener over Your Grave (Puncher & Wattmann, 2023) and Lyre (UWAP, 2019)…

John Manifold was an Australian poet, translator, and musicologist. Born in Melbourne in 1915, he studied at Cambridge University, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. During World War II,…

Douglas Stewart is regarded as a major contributor to the development of the literature of Australia and New Zealand. Highly versatile and prolific, he wrote poetry, plays, short stories, biographies, criticism…

Juno Gemes is a Hungarian-born Australian photographer focused on social justice and literary portraiture. Her twenty-six solo exhibitions include Proof: Portraits from the Movement, 1978–2003 at the National…

Bonny Cassidy is a poet, editor, and critic living in Melbourne. Her most recent book is Final Theory (Giramondo Publishing, 2014).

Fiona Hile’s first full-length collection, Novelties (Hunter Publishers, 2013), was awarded the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. Her most recent book, Subtraction (Vagabond Press, 2017) won the Helen Anne…

Cassie Lewis is a Melbourne poet currently living in Rochester, New York. She is the author of The Blue Decodes (Grand Parade Poets, 2016).

Gig Ryan’s New and Selected Poems (Giramondo Publishing) was published in 2011. She has previously written songs with Disband and Driving Past. She is poetry editor of The Age.

Robbie Coburn grew up in the rural district of Woodstock, Victoria. His latest chapbook is Mad Songs (Blank Rune Press, 2015). He currently lives in Melbourne.

Claire Potter is from Western Australia. She has published two chapbooks and a full-length collection, Swallow (Five Islands Press, 2010). She lives and works in London.

Amanda Joy is a poet and visual artist from the Pilbara and Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Elizabeth Campbell’s Error (2011) and Letters to the Tremulous Hand (2007) were published by John Leonard Press. She lives in Melbourne.

Petra White’s most recent book is A Hunger ( John Leonard Press 2014). She lives in Melbourne and works as a policy adviser.

Susan Fealy is a Melbourne-based poet and clinical psychologist. Her poems appear in Best Australian Poems. She is developing her first full-length collection. 

Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann is the author of seven books, including the verse novel Ruby Moonlight (2012, Flood Editions 2015), and the poetry collections Inside My Mother (Giramondo…

Michael Brennan is an Australian writer based in Toyko, Japan. His books include Autoethnographic (Giramondo Publishing, 2012) and Unanimous Night (Salt Publishing, 2008).

Michael Farrell lives in Melbourne. His books include A Lyrebird: Selected Poems (BlazeVOX [books], 2017) and I Love Poetry (Giramondo, 2017).

Lionel G. Fogarty is the author of several collections, most recently Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Möbö-Möbö (Future) (Vagabond Press, 2014).

Samuel Wagan Watson is a textual chemist based in Brisbane. His cocktails have appeared in print, public art, film, television, music projects, and onboard the International Space Station. His recent collection…

Bronwyn Lea was born in Tasmania and grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea. She is the author of three award-winning collections of poems, most recently The Deep North (George Braziller, 2013). She teaches…