AAWP 2017, Climates of Change biographies

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1 AAWP 2017, Climates of Change biographies Lillian Allen has a Masters in Science, a Graduate Diploma in Education and Counselling, a Masters in Creative Writing, and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Flinders University. She has over 40 poems and five fictional novels published under pseudonyms. Patrick Allington is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Flinders University. His novel Figurehead (Black Inc. 2009) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and his essays, short fiction and criticism have appeared widely. He was a former Commissioning Editor for the University of Adelaide Press. Nicole Anae graduated from Charles Sturt University with a B.Ed and Dip.T before earning her PhD through the Faculty of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania. Her research interests include the English literatures, Shakespeare, theatre history, Australian colonial and postcolonial writing, embodiment and performance, and the interplay between literature, performance and identity. She is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at Central Queensland University. Her published work appears in refereed journals and edited collections. Kay Are writes poetry and prose that wears the material conditions of its performance/production on its sleeve. She has taught at the University of Melbourne for a number of years, in Creative Writing and in Spanish and Latin American Studies. Her PhD research (Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University) evaluated the affordances for creative practice and pedagogy of some key insights of quantum physics, as read through feminist new materialist philosophies, and presented a manuscript of conceptual poetry that complemented this discussion. Her research sits under the umbrella fields of the Environmental Humanities and the Creative Arts. Jason Bainbridge is Head of School, Communication, International Studies & Languages at the University of South Australia. He co-authored the book Media and journalism: new approaches to theory and practice (Oxford University Press, 2015) and his essays and book chapters on strategic communications, the media and journalism, popular culture and the law have appeared widely. Tess Barber is a creative writer currently studying a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. Her current research studies alternative approaches to environment and ecology in science and speculative fictions (SF), focusing particularly on Australian SF. This research includes a creative component, a SF novel: Perhaps revolution is too strong a word.... Katherine Barnes s The Sabotage Diaries (2015) tells the story of her father-in-law Tom Barnes, a New Zealand engineer who parachuted behind enemy lines in Greece in 1942 in a Special Operations Executive mission to demolish a bridge on the railway line carrying German supplies to Rommel s troops in North Africa. Katherine has a PhD from the Australian National University in Australian Literature. Her book about the Australian poet Christopher Brennan, The Higher Self (2006), won the Walter McRae Russell award for literary scholarship on an Australian subject in Katherine lectured in creative writing, English literature and speechmaking at the University of NSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Since 2009 she has been a Commonwealth public servant working in the area of public policy.

2 Alison Bartlett is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia in English and Cultural Studies. She is a member of The Beeliar Group: Professors for Environmental Responsibility, and has published widely on Australian writing, culture, and feminist histories. Recent publications include 2 chapters in Never Again: Reflections on Environmental Responsibility After Roe 8, edited by Andrea Gaynor and Peter Newman (UWAP). Associate Professor Craig Batty is Associate Professor of Screenwriting and Creative Practice at RMIT University. He is author of over 50 books, chapters, journal articles and refereed conference proceedings; editor of two books and 10 journal special issues; and has worked as a writer and script editor on various film/screen projects. His current areas of research are script development practices in the screen industry, and doctoral education in creative practice disciplines. Craig is also Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University, and Visiting Research Fellow at the UK s Bournemouth University. Chantelle Bayes completed a PhD in 2016 investigating the ways literature might embody constructions of urban nature. Her research interests include contemporary fiction, new nature writing, and the legacy of Romanticism. Her work has been published in Axon and TEXT journals. Carolyn Beasley is Program Director of undergraduate and postgraduate writing courses, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University of Technology. She is a multiple award-winning short story writer, and has also worked as a photographer, journalist, and freelance writer with her journalism and fiction published both nationally and internationally. She has been awarded an ALTC and Swinburne's Vice Chancellor's Award for her teaching in prisons. Lisa Bennett is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English at Flinders University. She completed a BFA (Hons) at the University of Ottawa before earning a BA (Hons) and PhD in medieval Icelandic literature and cultural memory at Flinders University. Under the name Lisa L. Hannett, she has published over 65 short stories in venues including Clarkesworld Magazine, Fantasy, Weird Tales, the Year's Best Australian Horror and Fantasy (Aus), the Year's Best Dark Horror and Fantasy (USA) and Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (Can). She has won four Aurealis Awards, including 'Best Collection 2011' for her first book, Bluegrass Symphony, which was also nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Craig Billingham is a Doctor of Arts candidate at the University of Sydney. His research interests include autofiction, truth and autobiography, the ethics of literary biography, and author personae novels. His short fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published widely, most recently in Southerly, Tincture, LiNQ, Australian Book Review, and Verity La. Megan Blake is a final-year PhD candidate at Monash University, researching the influence of author-concepts on hermeneutics. She was recently published in Colloquy journal, on The Emergent Author: Affective Response to a Friend of a Very Special Artificial Kind (2015) and spoke at the June 2017 meeting of the Melbourne Shakespeare Society. James Bradley is a Sydney-based novelist and critic. His novels include Wreck, The Resurrectionist, and Clade have won or been shortlisted for a number of major Australian

3 literary awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the New South Wales Premier s Literary Awards, the Age Fiction Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, and the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. His latest novel, The Silent Invasion, was published in Bradley s reviews have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Australian Literary Review, Australian Book Review, The Monthly, Locus, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Heat, The Weekend Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. In 2012 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for Criticism and was named Australian Critic of the Year. Professor Donna Lee Brien is Professor of Creative Industries at Central Queensland University. Donna has an MA and PhD in creative writing by creative work and exegesis, and is a past President of the AAWP and immediate past Special Issues Commissioning Editor of TEXT. Forthcoming books include Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice with Quinn Eades (UWAP), Forgotten Lives: Recovering Lost Histories Through Fact and Fiction with Dallas Baker and Nike Sulway (Cambridge Scholars) and The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (with Lorna Piatti-Farnell). Associate Professor David Carlin is co-founder of the non/fictionlab and co-director of WrICE at RMIT University, Melbourne. His books include The Abyssinian Contortionist (UWAP, 2015) and Our Father Who Wasn t There (Scribe, 2010), and his essays have appeared in Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Essay Daily, Overland, TEXT Journal, New Writing, Media International Australia, Continuum and elsewhere. His plays, documentary and short films have won awards and featured at international festivals. He has also directed theatre and circus and led the Circus Oz Living Archive project. David is Co- President of the NonfictioNOW Conference, the leading international conference for literary nonfiction. Rebecca Carver is a Sydney-based PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Deakin University. She holds an MA in Writing and Literature and taught English composition, research, and literature at several colleges in the US. Her doctoral research explores the impact of adversity on identity through cognitive psychology and life writing. Rosey Chang is an academic developer for engineering practice at Swinburne University, and a PhD candidate in creative writing at Monash University. Her work creative work has appeared in Peril magazine and Victorian Writer, with additional work in The Age, TEXT, and international journals. She is writing a middle-grade novel set in medieval Japan. Her research explores writers experiences of strong emotions in relation to writing practice through a lens of mindfulness. Her interests include Zen arts practice, shamatha meditation and all chocolate desserts. Nandi Chinna is a research consultant, poet, essayist and activist. Her first collection of poetry, Our Only Guide is Our Homesickness (Five Islands Press, 2007), followed by the chap book How to Measure Land (joint winner of the 2010 Picaro Press Byron Bay Writers Festival Poetry Prize) and Swamp; walking the wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain (Fremantle Press, 2014). Her latest poetry collection, An Older Country, is forthcoming from Fremantle Press. In 2016 she was the inaugural writer in residence at Kings Park and Botanical Garden in Perth, Western Australia.

4 Aidan Coleman s two collections of poetry: Avenues & Runways (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2005) and Asymmetry (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2012), were shortlisted for national awards, including the NSW Premier s Kenneth Slessor Prize, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Western Australian Premier s Book Awards. Aidan is a co-designer of the MOOC Shakespeare Matters with the AdelaideX project and co-authors Shakespeare textbooks. He is currently writing a biography of the Australian poet, John Forbes, with the assistance of an Australia Council grant. Katharine Coles s memoir will be released in fall 2018 by Turtle Point Press, and her seventh collection of poetry, Wayward, will be released by Red Hen Press in Her fifth collection, The Earth Is Not Flat, was written under the auspices of the National Science Foundation s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. A Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, she has received grants and awards in the US from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently working on a book about poetics. Associate Professor Shady Cosgrove is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at University of Wollongong. Her books include What the Ground Can t Hold (Picador, 2013) and She Played Elvis (Allen and Unwin, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Prize. Her shorter works have appeared in Southerly, Overland, Antipodes, Best Australian Stories, and Spineless Wonders publications. Nicole Crowe is a PhD candidate at James Cook University, researching the narrative possibilities of humour in representing family members in Australian autobiography. She is working on a memoir of her family and childhood growing up on Magnetic Island in the 1980s and 90s. Drafts of her memoir have so far been awarded an ASA Mentorship for Emerging Writers and a Varuna Writers Fellowship. Sif Dal is an independent researcher who authored Identity in a Flash: Smásaga, flash fiction and Icelandic Australian Identity and co-authored Flash fiction, prose poetry and ambiguity: The distinction between flash fiction and prose poetry on ambiguous terms. Sif s interests lie in Flash Fiction and the writing of Narrative Identity. She has published Flash, poetry, and most recently, the Young Adult novel Hidden (Stone Table, 2017). John Dale is the author of seven books including the non-fiction Huckstepp and three crime novels, Dark Angel, which won a Ned Kelly Award, The Dogs Are Barking and Detective Work. His other books are a memoir, Wild Life, an investigation into the fatal shooting of his grandfather in 1940s Tasmania, a campus novel Leaving Suzie Pye, which was translated into Turkish, and a novella Plenty. He is currently Professor of Writing at University of Technology Sydney. Kerrie Davies is a media lecturer at the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW. Her work of literary journalism, A Wife s Heart, was published by UQP in Her research interests are life writing, literary journalism, and social media. Dr Corinna Di Niro completed her PhD in Commedia dell'arte through the University of South Australia in She published on education and performance practices in the European Journal of Humour Research (2015) and has taught Commedia in Paris, Stockholm, London and Auckland to name a few. Corinna is currently teaching at the University of South Australia and as part of NIDA s Open Program.

5 Dan Disney is an Australian poet whose previous collections include and then when the (John Leonard Press, 2011) and either, Orpheus (UWAP, 2016). He is also coeditor with Kit Kelen of the collection Writing to the Wire (UWAP, 2016). Dan Disney teaches in the Literature Department at Sogang University, Seoul. Leanne Dodd is a doctoral candidate at Central Queensland University, an author of three independently published crime thrillers with themes of trauma, a tutor, writing mentor and workshop facilitator. She serves as Chair of the Queensland Writers Centre. Dr Alex Dunkin teaches creative short fiction at the University of South Australia. He recently completed his PhD in literature, language and linguistics with a focus on transferring a contemporary Italian genre to an Australian audience. He is the author of the novels Fair Day, Coming Out Catholic and Homebody. Dr Quinn Eades is a researcher, writer, and award-winning poet whose work lies at the nexus of trans, feminist, and queer theories of the body, autobiography, and philosophy. Eades is published nationally and internationally, and is the author of all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body (Australian Scholarly Publishing) and Rallying (UWAP). Hayley Elliot-Ryan is a Melbourne based writer/maker. She is currently working on interdisciplinary projects involving experimental narrative, virtual reality, and podcasting. She is a PhD candidate at Deakin University. Gabrielle Everall completed her PhD in creative writing at the University of Western Australia, where she wrote her second book of poetry, Les Belles Lettres. Her first book of poetry is called Dona Juanita and the love of boys. She has been published in numerous anthologies, including The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Performance Poets, and The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry (edited by John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan). She has also performed at The Bowery Poetry Club in New York and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She currently studies at Melbourne University. Robyn Ferrell is an Australian writer and philosopher, currently living in Sydney. She is the author of several books of philosophy and a book of creative non-fiction, The Real Desire (Indra), which was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers Award in Katrina Finlayson will be awarded her PhD in Creative Writing by Flinders University in December Her doctoral research explores how the theory of the Uncanny might be of use to contemporary creative writers. Appropriate to the Uncanny, her doctoral travels were strange and disrupted, and the resulting fiction/nonfiction/theory braided thesis, titled Stranger, reflects this fragmentation. Katrina s most recent creative publication is Dorothea Tanning and Me on the Threshold of a Stranger City, in Axon: Creative Explorations (2015). Robyn Glade-Wright is an Associate Professor in College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University. Her interests include aesthetics and the capacity of art to generate reflection regarding environmental challenges in the tropics. Her research interests extend to technical realms, including optical colour mixing, mesmerizing patterns, appearance retention in carpet design and the impact of visual images on people s moods.

6 Chemutai Glasheen is a PhD candidate in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University. She also holds a Master of Human Rights degree from the same university and has a background in education. Her research investigates young adult fiction as a pedagogical tool in human rights awareness raising. She is writing a collection of short stories as part of her creative practice. Dr Roanna Gonsalves is the author of The Permanent Resident (UWAP, 2016), an acclaimed collection of short fiction that is being studied in the fields of Australian Literature, Postcolonial Literatures, and Creative Writing at a number of Australian universities. Her creative and scholarly peer-reviewed work have been published and performed across various media internationally. She is a recipient of the Prime Minister s Australia Asia Endeavour Award. Raelke Grimmer is a Common Units Lecturer at Charles Darwin University. She is also a Creative Writing PhD candidate at Flinders University. Her thesis explores Australia s monolingualism and multiculturalism, and explores the way writers use genre as a tool in the writing process. Donna Maree Hanson is a Canberra-based writer of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and, under the pseudonym Dani Kristoff, paranormal romance. In 2016, Donna commenced her PhD candidature researching feminism in popular romance at the University of Canberra. Dr Lynda Hawryluk is a Senior Lecturer in Writing at Southern Cross University where she is the Course Coordinator of the Associate Degree of Creative Writing. An experienced writing workshop facilitator, Lynda has also presented workshops for community and writing groups in Australia and Canada. She is the immediate past President and Chair of the AAWP, on the board of the Northern Rivers Writers Centre, and has been published in a variety of academic and creative publications. Dominique Hecq read Germanic Philology at the University of Liège and then flew over to Australia where she completed a PhD on exile in Australian Literature. She also holds an MA in Literary Translation. Dominique is the author of a novel, three collections of short fiction, five books of poetry and two plays. Over the years, her work has been awarded a variety of prizes, including The Melbourne Fringe Festival Award for Outstanding Writing and Spoken Word Performance (1998), The New England Review Prize for Poetry (2005), The Martha Richardson Medal for Poetry (2006), and the inaugural AALITRA Prize for Literary Translation in poetry from Spanish into English (2014). Her poems have been published in anthologies, journals and on websites in Australia and overseas. Hush: a fugue (UWAP, 2017) is her latest book of poetry. Robin Hemley has published 12 books of fiction and nonfiction and has won many awards for his work. He is the founder and past president of NonfictioNOW as well as the former director of the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa. He is currently the Director of the Writers Centre at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, as well as Writer-in- Residence and Professor of Humanities. He also holds the appointment of Distinguished Adjunct at RMIT and is Professor Emeritus at The University of Iowa. Alex Henderson is an Honours student at the University of Canberra. She has been published in short fiction anthologies, writes feature articles and pop culture essays for the web, and is currently completing a creative thesis on mythic archetypes and gender.

7 Dr Belinda Hilton is an early career researcher and creative practitioner. In 2016, she was awarded her PhD in creative writing from Griffith University. Her doctoral research explored Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, autobiographical fiction, therapeutic writing, and the relationship between NSSI and online communication, seeking to find an effective form of self-care writing. She works as a sessional tutor in the fields of communication, media, and literary studies (Griffith University, and the University of the Sunshine Coast), presents workshops on Nonsuicial Self-Injury (The Learning Space), and is a course coordinator in the Diploma of Arts and Communication at Griffith College. She has been published in Talent Implied, and Writing the Self: Essays on Autobiography and Autofiction. Ingrid Horrocks is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing and English at Massey University Wellington. Ingrid has a PhD from Princeton University and her creative work includes two collections of poetry and a genre-bending travel book, Travelling with Augusta, 1835 and 1999 (Victoria University Press), which is part memoir, part love story, past history of women s travel. Most recently, she co-edited and contributed to an innovative collection of creative essays, Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand (Victoria UP, 2016), and published an academic monograph, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She was one of the organisers of the 2014 AAWP conference, held in Wellington. Deborah Hunn was awarded a PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2001 and has taught in English, Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Adelaide, UWA and, for the last decade, in Cultural Studies and Creative and Professional Writing and Publishing at Curtin University. Andy Jackson is a poet who has featured at literary events and arts festivals in Australia, India, USA and Ireland. He was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize for Poetry for Among the regulars (Papertiger, 2010), and won the 2013 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for The thin bridge. His latest collection, Music our bodies can't hold (Hunter Publishers, 2017), consists of portrait poems of other people with Marfan Syndrome. Andy is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, using disability theory and the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas to explore the connections between bodily otherness and poetry. Luke Johnson is a writer and academic. He holds a PhD in Literary Theory and Creative Writing from UTS and master and bachelor degrees from UOW. His fiction has appeared in such places as Griffith Review, Overland, Island, HEAT, Mascara Literary Review, The Lifted Brow, Going Down Swinging and TEXT, as well as being listed for such awards as the Josephine Ulrick Prize and Elizabeth Jolley Prize. His debut novella, Ringbark, was published in 2015 by Going Down Swinging as part of the Longbox series. He has written opinion pieces for The Age, The Drum and New Matilda, and reviews for Australian Book Review. His scholarly research, which draws from Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, has been published nationally and internationally. Jill Jones has published ten full-length books of poetry, and a number of chapbooks. Her latest books are Brink (Five Islands Press), The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann), which won the 2015 Victorian Premier s Literary Award for Poetry, and Breaking the Days (Whitmore Press), which was shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier s Literary Awards. Her work is represented in a number of major anthologies, including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, Contemporary Australian Poetry, and The Penguin

8 Anthology of Australian Poetry. In 2014 she was poet-in-residence at Stockholm University. She teaches creative writing at the University of Adelaide where she is also a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. Penelope Jane Jones is a doctoral candidate at Deakin University, researching climate change literature. She has been published in several literary journals for her short fiction including Verandah and Etchings. She is also currently co-writing a young adult novel with a best-selling author, to be published in mid A journalist for more than 35 years, working in Australia and the UK, Sue Joseph (PhD) began working as an academic, teaching print journalism at the University of Technology Sydney in As a Senior Lecturer, she now teaches journalism and creative writing, particularly creative non-fiction writing, in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Her research interests are around sexuality, secrets and confession, framed by the media; ethics and trauma narrative; memoir; reflective professional practice; ethical HDR supervision; nonfiction poetry; and Australian creative non-fiction. Her fourth book, Behind the Text: Candid conversations with Australian creative nonfiction writers, was released in October She is currently Reviews Editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. Daniel Juckes is a PhD candidate at Curtin University. His research interests include nostalgia studies, Thing Theory, and autobiography. His writing has been published in Australian Book Review, Meniscus, TEXT, and Westerly; he edited Exploring Nostalgia: Sad, Bad, Mad and Sweet (I-D Press). Dr Helena Kadmos is the Krishna Somers Postdoctoral Fellow in Literary Studies at Murdoch University, where she lectures across English and creative writing. Her key research interests are the short story form, representation and gender, and creative non-fiction. She has published short stories in Australia and the United States. Laura Kenny is a second-year PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Queensland University of Technology. Her practice-led research looks at representations of childhood trauma in contemporary Australian realist fiction with a focus on how the experience of childhood trauma affects a character s relationship with place and home. Laura s poetry has been published in Right Now and Pressure Gauge Journal. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, and published in the Review of Australian Fiction and TEXT s special issue on Writing Trauma. Jessica Kirkness is a PhD candidate and creative writer in the department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research straddles the margins of Disability Studies, Deaf Studies, and emerging discourses around creative nonfiction and ethnographic research. Professor Nigel Krauth is Professor and Head of the writing program at Griffith University, and General Editor of TEXT. He has published novels, stories, essays, articles and reviews. His most recent book is Creative Writing and the Radical (MLM 2016), his latest academic article is Ekphrasis and the writing process (with Christopher Bowman) in New Writing 14, 3 (May 2017) and his latest fragmented narrative story is Byron snapshots in Review of Australian Fiction 22, 5 (June 2017).

9 Emeritus Professor Jeri Kroll was the inaugural Dean of Graduate Research at Flinders University. Past President of the AAWP, recent scholarship is Old and New, Tried and Untried: Creativity and Research in the 21 st Century University (Common Ground) and Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan). Recent creative outputs are Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems (Wakefield Press) and the verse novel, Vanishing Point (Puncher & Wattmann). Shortlisted for the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards, the novel was adapted to the stage at George Washington University. It was a winner in the 47 th Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She is a Doctorate of Creative Arts candidate at the University of Wollongong. Kerstin Kugler is a children s book author with a master s in applied linguistics (University of Newcastle) and a master s in philosophy (Curtin University of Technology). She is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts at Curtin University of Technology. She is working on her third middle grade novel and writing her exegesis on YA literature and cultural studies. Sophie Langley is an essayist, sound art maker, and current Masters by Research candidate in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Her practice-as-research project wanders through questions about food, post-humanism, waste, making and social practice. The research explores, through a series of sonic essays, the value in practices of making things using food scraps as materials. Sophie has published her research in New Writing. Dr J.R. Latham is Honorary Fellow in Screen & Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. His work has been published in the journals Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the Australasian Journal on Ageing, Feminist Theory, and Sexualities and he was co-awarded the 2016 Symonds Prize for an essay appearing in Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Bronwyn Lovell is a PhD candidate in creative writing at Flinders University, where she is researching depictions of women in space and writing a science fiction verse novel about a female astronaut on a mission to Mars. Her poetry has appeared in Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Antipodes, Cordite and elsewhere. She has won the Val Vallis Award and the Adrien Abbott Poetry Prize, been shortlisted for the Newcastle, Bridport and Montreal prizes, and nominated for a Rhysling Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Her 2016 essay Science Fiction s Women Problem was published by The Conversation, and was a finalist for the 2017 CHASS Australia Prize for a Student. Gay Lynch is an honorary research fellow in creative writing and English at Flinders University. She has published a novel, Cleanskin (2006), and short stories, most recently in Bluestem Magazine Illinois (2017), Transnational Literature (2017), Griffith Review (2016) and Best Australian Stories Her non-fiction book Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History appeared in 2010 (Cambridge Scholars). She was Fiction and Life Writing editor at Transnational Literature from Sophie MacNeill is a writer and PhD candidate at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. Her practice-led research explores transculturalism in the context of contemporary return narratives. Sophie's short fiction has been published in Talent Implied: New Writing from Griffith and the Bareknuckle Poet Annual Anthology. In 2017 she co-founded the Gold Coast-

10 based writing collective Crosscurrent Creative and their regular live reading night, Beyond the Swell. Pete Mawhinney is an Honours student in Professional and Creative Writing at Deakin University. His research interests include posthumanism, ecocriticism and new materialism. Pete is a tutor at Deakin s Institute of Koorie Education. He lives on Victoria s Great Ocean Road, where he teaches the Japanese martial art of kendo. Kirstyn McDermott is a Ballarat-based author of two novels, Madigan Mine (Picador) and Perfections (Twelfth Planet Press), and a collection of short fiction, Caution: Contains Small Parts (Twelfth Planet Press). For the past five years she has also been the producer and co-host of a literary critique podcast, The Writer and the Critic. Kirstyn is currently undertaking a creative PhD at Federation University with a research focus on collaborative female relationships in re-visioned fairy tales. Ian McHugh is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (CCCR) in the University of Canberra. His short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies in Australia and overseas. His stories have won grand prize in the international Writers of the Future contest and Australia's Aurealis Award for speculative fiction, and been collected in Australian and international Year's Best fiction anthologies. Ian s debut collection, Angel Dust (Ticonderoga), was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Collection in Ruth McIver is a writer of poetry and fiction. She s written and launched a true crime inspired novel-in-verse, The Sunset Club, which has been adapted for the stage. Ruth was recently selected by a team of publishers as one of seven writers to pitch her novel idea at Bloody Scotland (2014). She s now undertaking a PhD in the area of true crime inspired crime fiction at Curtin University. Catherine McKinnon is a novelist, playwright and University of Wollongong academic. Her novel are Storyland (HarperCollins, 2017), and The Nearly Happy Family (Penguin, 2008). She was co-winner of the Griffith Review: Tall Tales Short The Novella Project 111 award in Her plays have been produced nationally and her short stories, reviews and essays have appeared in Transnational Literature, TEXT, RealTime, Narrative and Griffith Review. Bernadette Meenach is a graduate of NIDA (Grad Dip Voice Studies) and QUT (MA Research & Dip Teach). She has extensive experience as a theatre practitioner, working as an actor, devisor, director and vocal coach for state-subsidized theatre companies, universities, and independent theatre. Bernadette also works as an actor and dialect coach for organizations including the ABC, QLD Health and BMEG. She is currently a PhD candidate and the Lecturer in Voice at University of Southern Queensland. Bernadette s original biographical theatre works Ms Garland at Twilight and Judy Strikes Back have been performed at both state and regional venues. Julian Meyrick is Strategic Professor of Creative Arts at Flinders University. He is a theatre historian and cultural policy analyst, as well as an award-winning theatre director. Previously he was Associate Director and Literary Advisor at Melbourne Theatre Company, where he was responsible for establishing Hard Lines, a new play development programme. Professor Meyrick has published widely on the Australian theatre, culture, and cultural policy. His latest work is Australian Theatre After the New Wave: Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative

11 Artist (Brill, 2017). Born in England, based in Melbourne, Rose Michael is a writer, editor and academic who has been published in Griffith REVIEW, Best Australian Stories, Island, Muse, and Cultural Studies Review. Her first novel, The Asking Game (Transit Lounge, 2007), was a runner-up for the Allen & Unwin/Vogel award and received an Aurealis Award honourable mention. Her speculative fiction novel The Art of Navigation was published by UWAP in Jess Miller's essays, reviews and fiction have been published in Lip, Tulpa, Indaily, Bowen Street Press Pulse anthology, Crush: Stories About Love (co-ed.), and the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction (forthcoming). Jess is currently undertaking a PhD which focuses on literary representations of female time-travellers. Her other research interests include magical realism, feminist utopian novels, and darker manifestations of time and nostalgia in fiction. Carol Millner (BA. Hons. MThA.) is an award-winning writer of poetry and short prose. She is currently a PhD candidate at Curtin University where she is developing a short story collection concerned with the immigrant experience in Western Australia. Carol Mills is PhD candidate in creative writing and cultural studies at Curtin University. The current creative work in progress, a memoir, is based on a personal experience establishing a floatplane business (with her husband Paul) on Magnetic Island within the Great Barrier Reef. Her research interest for this project explores the relationship between stories, place and lived experience. Paul Munden is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Canberra, where he is also Program Manager for the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI). He is General Editor of Writing in Education and Writing in Practice, both published by the UK's National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), of which he is Director. He has worked as conference poet for the British Council and edited Feeling the Pressure: poetry and science of climate change (British Council, 2008). His collections include Analogue/Digital (Smith Doorstop, 2015) and The Bulmer Murder (Recent Work Press 2017). A new collection, Chromatic, is being published in the UWAP Poetry Series. Molly Murn holds a Masters in Creative Arts, an Honours degree in Dance, and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Flinders University. For her PhD she is researching contemporary Australian poetry and poetics and composing a poetry collection that explores writing on the threshold. Molly s poetry has won several awards, including a commendation in the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. Molly was the recipient of a Varuna Publisher Fellowship with UQP in 2013 for her unpublished novel the Heart of the Grass Tree. She has worked as a lecturer in English and Creative writing and as a sessional academic teacher. Dr Ffion Murphy was born in Kenya, grew up in Perth and lived in Sydney, London and then Brisbane before returning to Western Australia. She worked for several years in film and television and is a Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University. Her publications include The Gate of Dreams (Fremantle Arts Centre Press), Writing Australia (UQP) and Story/telling (UQP).

12 Peta Murray is a writer-performer, dramaturge, and sessional teacher at RMIT University. Her recently completed practice-led PhD project, Essayesque dismemoir: w/rites of elderflowering, employed variations of the performance essay to devise queered and performative nonfiction on themes of the creative life course and the embodied experience of ageing. Peta s best-known plays are Wallflowering, Salt and The Keys to the Animal Room. Critical writing includes a chapter in Creative Manoeuvres: Writing, Making, Being, coauthored articles for New Writing and for AXON, and a creative contribution, Please Supply Own Title in TEXT Special Issue 39 on The Essay. Jason Nahrung is a journalist, editor and writer based in Ballarat. He is undertaking a PhD in creative writing at the University of Queensland investigating the benefits of combining the mosaic form with science fiction to explore climate change. He has an MA in creative writing from QUT and writes across the gamut of speculative fiction, with four novels and more than 20 short stories to his name. Tim Napper is an Aurealis Award-winning writer whose short fiction has appeared in prestigious genre magazines in the US, UK, Singapore and Australia. He was an aid worker for over decade in Southeast Asia, before recently returning to Canberra after three years in Vietnam. He is currently working on a creative writing PhD at the University of Canberra, focussing on noir, cyberpunk, and Asian modernity. Richard Nile is Professor and Head of the Humanities and Creative Arts at James Cook University. He has headed up scholarly centres and institutes at universities in Australia and overseas. Dr Catherine Noske is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Western Australia, and editor of Westerly. She has twice been awarded the Elyne Mitchell Prize for Rural Women Writers, and her current manuscript, the subject of a Varuna Fellowship, was shortlisted for the 2015 Dorothy Hewett Award. Critically, her work focuses on place-making in the contemporary Australian setting, and examining the manner in which creative writing as both a practice and a field of study contributes to concepts of national identity. Award-winning short story writer and novelist Julian Novitz was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and currently lives in Melbourne. His first book, a collection of short stories called My Real Life and Other Stories (Random House), won the New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction Award (2005) and he has since published several novels. Novitz has completed a PhD in creative writing and literary studies at the University of Melbourne, and has taught courses in creative writing, literature and communications at the University of Melbourne, Deakin University, and the Swinburne University of Technology. He won the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Award for Short Fiction in 2008, and was a recipient of the Buddle Findlay Frank Sargeson Residential Writing Fellowship in Marie O Rourke is a creative writer and PhD candidate from Curtin University, Western Australia. Investigating the quirks of memory, her current creative work in progress is a collection of lyric essays pushing the boundaries of post-postmodern memoir. Her creative and critical work has appeared in Meniscus, a/b: Auto/biography Studies, TEXT, New Writing, Westerly, and Australian Book Review. She also has a chapter in Mediating Memory: Tracing the limits of memoir (Routledge, 2017).

13 Kaylia Payne is a writer, editor and proofreader. Her short stories have been published in Tincture Journal and the annual anthology fourw, and she was the winner of the $500 My Grief Assist award for her piece in the 2017 Grieve print anthology. Kaylia is currently undertaking a PhD in creative writing at Southern Cross University, where she is working on a novel about Australia s treatment of people seeking asylum. Andrew Pippos is in the late stages of his doctorate of creative arts at UTS. His writing has appeared in Meanjin, Tin House, N+1, Electric Literature, The Millions, Catapult, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and Sydney Review of Books. Gail Pittaway is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Drama and Storytelling, Myth and Ritual at the Waikato Institute of Technology, in the School of Media Arts. She is also a doctoral candidate at Central Queensland University, undertaking a Creative Writing thesis in Creative Nonfiction a food memoir. Gail has had both creative work and academic papers published, and co-edited journal special issues, conference proceedings and a collection of academic essays. She is one of the co-editors of Meniscus (International Journal of Creative Writing) and is a regular reviewer of books for Radio New Zealand s Nine to Noon programme and a drama critic for Theatreview website. She is an advisory board member of the AAWP. Antonia Pont is Senior Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She publishes poetry and various kinds of prose. Her recent scholarly work uses 20th century French philosophy to explore the ontological, ethical and political stakes of practising. Recent publications include the co-authored Practising with Deleuze (2017, EUP) and In Praise of a Plain Life (The Lifted Brow #35, 2017). She is currently the President of the AAWP. Julia Prendergast has a PhD in Writing and Literature, and teaches Writing and Literature at Swinburne University. Her novel is forthcoming (UWAP). Her stories have been longlisted, shortlisted and published: Lightship Anthology 2 (UK), Glimmer Train (US), TEXT (AU), Séan Ó Faoláin Competition (IE), Review of Australian Fiction, Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Prize, and Josephine Ulrick Prize (AU). Julia s theoretical work has been published: TEXT (AU), New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (UK), Current Narratives (AU), Testimony Witness Authority: The Politics and Poetics of Experience (UK). Julia, Melbourne (AU). Melanie Pryor is a PhD candidate in creative writing at Flinders University. Her research examines the relationship between landscape, gender, and embodiment in contemporary nonfiction. Melanie s creative and critical work has been published in Southerly, Overland, Lip, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and is forthcoming in Meanjin. Paul Race is Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Nursing and Theology at Avondale College of Higher Education. He teaches in the area of ethics and clinical dilemmas in the discipline of nursing and has research interests in the areas of preparation for practice in differing speciality areas in nursing, career development and specialisation within nursing, and the effects of health and social policy, and organisational structures on professional practice. Leigh Redhead is a postgraduate student at the University of Wollongong, where she is completing a PhD on Australian noir fiction and writing a Hippy Noir set in an alternative community in rural Australia. She is also the author of Peepshow (2004), Rubdown (2005),

14 Cherry Pie (2007) and Thrill City (2010) a crime series featuring stripper/private investigator Simone Kirsch (all published by Allen & Unwin). Carolyn Rickett is an Associate Dean of Research, Senior Lecturer in Communication and creative arts practitioner at Avondale College of Higher Education. She is coordinator for The New Leaves writing project, an initiative for people who have experienced or are experiencing the trauma of a life-threatening illness. Together with Judith Beveridge, she is co-editor of The New Leaves Poetry Anthology. Other anthologies she has co-edited with Judith include Wording the World, Here, Not There, and A Way of Happening. Her research interests include trauma studies, writing as therapeutic intervention, medical humanities, journalism ethics and praxis, and literature and poetry. Dr Rachel Robertson is a Senior Lecturer in the Communication and Cultural Studies Department at Curtin University. She is the author of Reaching One Thousand (Black Inc., 2012) and editor of a collection of personal essays titled Purple Prose (Fremantle Press, 2015). Her research interests include life writing, creative writing pedagogy, Australian literature, critical disability studies and narrative non-fiction. Rachel is Reflections Editor of the journal Life Writing and Consultant Editor, Prose, for Westerly. Nicholas Robinson is completing his PhD at the University of Melbourne in the school of Culture and Communications. He is researching emerging attention in twenty-first century writing to the braided values of sincerity and the political. Ursula Robinson-Shaw is a writer and MA student at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on narrative form in alternative contemporary fiction. Camille Roulière is a cotutelle PhD student at the universities of Adelaide and Caen Normandie (France). Her research centres on spatial poetics and she investigates the links between place and art, primarily music, in Lower Murray Country (South Australia). Her research specifically aims to trace, map and interpret cultural perceptions of these landscapes, and their evolution. Her academic interests range widely from spatial and environmental humanities to Indigenous studies and ethnomusicology. Camille also works creatively as a scriptwriter/author, illustrator/painter/sculptor/glass artist, and amateur flutist and singer. Louise Sawtell is an experimental filmmaker and current PhD candidate in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Louise has published her research in New Writing and the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. She is the co-editor of the special issue journal, Gender and the Screenplay for Networking Knowledge. Her experimental short films have won awards and screened at a number of film festivals. As a writer-director she is passionate about telling female stories through her multidisciplinary film practice that challenges traditional and industrial storytelling models. She is currently teaching scriptwriting at Griffith Film School. Hayley Scrivenor is a Creative Writing PhD candidate. Her research project examines contemporary fiction that engages with the first person plural point of view in significant ways. Her novel, Things We Can t Say, is collectively narrated by the children of a small country town after one of their number is abducted. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Seizure Online, SCUM, Mascara Literary Review, Phantasmagoria Magazine, SWAMP and Verity La and she has been shortlisted for Overland s Story Wine Prize. Her essay Both sides now: the fear-less exegesis, co-written with Shady Cosgrove, appears in TEXT (special

15 series 44, October 201&). Hayley is the Director of Wollongong Writers Festival, an annual literary festival held in November: Dr Jessica Seymour is an Australian researcher and lecturer at HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht. Her research interests include children s and YA literature, transmedia storytelling, and popular culture. She has contributed chapters to several essay collections, which range in topic from fan studies, to Doctor Who, to ecocriticism in the works of JRR Tolkien. Barrie Sherwood is assistant professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His fiction has appeared in Stand, Matrix, Lighthouse, Columbia Journal, Keryawan, The Istanbul Review, and elsewhere. His novels are The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa (DC Books, Canada) and Escape from Amsterdam (Granta Books, UK; St Martins Press, USA). He is currently at work on a new novel titled Black Hospital. Janice Simpson is a PhD candidate in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT, Melbourne. In her creative practice research she is exploring forms of the lyric essay and where that might lead in her creation of adoptees' stories about place, memory and identity. Her crime novel Murder in Mt Martha was published in 2016; a further crime novel A Body of Work will be published in Linn Skoglund is an Associate Professor of writing at Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology in Norway. She has an MA in Creative Writing and PhD in English - Creative Writing from Macquarie University. Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author and artist, formerly Fiction Editor of Cosmos Magazine, currently finishing a PhD examining the intersection between ecocatastrophe science fiction and climate fiction. She directed speculative fiction festivals at the NSW Writer s Centre in 2017 and Her debut novel, Lotus Blue, is published by Skyhorse. catsparks.net Kieran Stevenson is a writer and musician based in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently undertaking a PhD in creative writing at Deakin University. His thesis a novel and accompanying theoretical exegesis explores the ways in which personal and collective identity is constructed, diffracted and dismantled by creative practice. Shane Strange is a doctoral candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra and an HDR member of the Faculty s Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (CCCR). He tutors and lectures in Writing and Literary Studies. He is a writer of short fiction and creative non-fiction who has been published widely in Australia, including Best Australian Stories, Griffith Review, Overland and Heat. In 2010, he was an Asialink Literature fellow. He is also a publisher and editor at Recent Work Press, a small poetry press based in Canberra. Lorinda Tang is an adept professional writer, specialising in law and health, and she is also a creative writing including fiction and non-fiction works. Currently, Lorinda is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Criticism through Deakin University. She has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Macquarie University and has also practised as a solicitor and a registered nurse.