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...

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.

Lisa Gorton lives in Melbourne. Her most recent publications, both from Giramondo Publishing, are the novel The Life of Houses (2015) and the poetry collection Hotel Hyperion (2013).

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

Anthony Lawrence’s most recent book of poems is Headwaters (Pitt Street Poetry, 2015), winner of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Award.

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...

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.

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

Jaya Savige’s collections include Maze Bright (Vagabond Press, 2014) and Surface to Air (University of Queensland Press, 2011). He teaches at the New College of the Humanities, London.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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.