Contributors
- Contributors
Jordie Albiston's latest titles are The Weekly Poem: 52 exercises in closed & open forms (Puncher and Wattmann, 2014), Jack & Mollie (& Her) (U of Queensland P, 2016), and Euclid's Dog: 100 algorithmic poems (GloriaSMH, 2017), which was short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. She lives in Melbourne.
Luma Balaa is an associate professor of English studies in Lebanese American University's Department of English. She teaches literature courses at the undergraduate, BA, and MA levels. Her research interests are fairy tales, gender studies, women's writings, and Anglo-Lebanese exile literature.
Owen Bullock has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Canberra, where he currently teaches. His research interests are semiotics and poetry, prose poetry, collaboration, and haikai literature; his scholarly work has appeared in Axon: Creative Explorations, Journal of New Zealand Literature, New Writing, Qualitative Inquiry, and TEXT. His creative publications include Work & Play (2017), Semi (2017), River's Edge (2016), and A Cornish Story (2010). He has edited a number of journals and anthologies, including Poetry New Zealand. He also hosts a website on his research: https://poetry-in-process.com/.
Enzo J. Condello is a Melbourne-based poet and playwright specializing in historical verse drama. He is currently finishing a long epic poem, "The Present Wasteland," which is partly inspired by T. S. Eliot and Dante on the Western world of today. His latest play, Geli, Hitler's Niece, is available for online at smashwords.com.
Stephen Conlon was dean of the Graduate School of English, Assumption University of Thailand, before retiring. He has published five books on applied linguistics, James Joyce, intercultural communications, and education. Currently he is working on a study of literary linguistic space. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Sydney.
Stephane Christophe Cordier is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Sydney, currently undertaking a PhD in Australian literatures under the supervision of Robert Dixon. His research topic is the representation of space in contemporary Australian literature with a focus on the works of Tim Winton, Nicolas Rothwell, and Ross Gibson. He was formerly a lecturer at the University of Picardie, France, and now works at the University of Wollongong. He is also a published author whose works have been published in France, Ireland, and Australia.
Dan Disney's collections of poems include and then when the (John Leonard, 2011), Mannequin's Guide to Utopias (Flying Island Books, 2013), Report from a border (co-devised with John Warwicker; Light Trap, 2016) and either, Orpheus (U of Western Australia P, 2016). He currently teaches in the English Literature Program at Sogang University in Seoul.
Jane Downing has had prose and poetry published in journals including the Griffith Review, Island, Southerly, Westerly, Overland, the Big Issue, Best Australian Poems (2004 and 2015), and previously in Antipodes. Her two novels—The Trickster (2003) and The Lost Tribe (2005)—were published by Pandanus Books at the Australian National University, and her next novel, Yack, was commended for the Jim Hamilton Unpublished Manuscript Award, part of the Federation of Australian Writers National Literary Awards, 2016. She has a doctor of creative arts degree from the University of Technology, Sydney, and can be found at www.janedowning.wordpress.com.
Anne Elvey is author of Kin (Five Islands, 2014), short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and This Flesh That You Know (Leaf, 2015), international winner of the Overleaf Chapbook Manuscript Award. Her most recent collection is White on White from Cordite Books. Anne is the managing editor of Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics. She holds honorary appointments at Monash University and University of Divinity, Melbourne.
Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, NSW, and is based in Melbourne. Recent publications include Cocky's Joy (Giramondo) and Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796–1945 (Palgrave Macmillan).
Matthew Hall holds a doctorate from the University of Western Australia. He has published extensively on the work of J. H. Prynne and British late-modern poetry and poetics, including the 2015 monograph Violence in the Work of J. H. Prynne. Hall is the scholarly and features editor of...
