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Dael Allison was co-runner up in the 2005 Wildcare Nature Writing Prize. Other poems have appeared in Blue Dog, Five Bells, Hecate and New England Review recently.

Connie Barber’s poetry is widely published. Her haiku have been published in Japan. Latest collection is Between Headlands, Five Islands Press, 2006.

Nicholas Barwell - retired ancient mariner, home port Applecross WA, likes cooking stir fries for his family, and enjoys the company of Sam, a cardigan corgi cross. Nicholas plays jazz piano, writes letters and talks on the phone to excess, loves backgammon, and reads Alan Watts forever. Nicholas is a regular contributor to Famous Reporter’s haiku pages.

Craig Billingham’s poetry has been published in Blue Dog, Space: New Writing, and Meanjin.

John Bird is a right-handed poet who, after a career as an army officer, retired to the Brunswick Valley, his birthplace. John was instrumental in the formation of ‘HaikuOz’ and ‘cloudcatchers’. His poetry includes free and traditional verse. He is a member of Wollumbin Haiku Workshops, and promotes the writing of haiku on Australian themes. http://users.mullum.com.au/jbird/Wksp/W-about.html

Karen Blaylock is an Adelaide poet whose work has been published in the Adelaide Review, Canberra Times, Quadrant, Famous Reporter, Artlook and Heat. Her work has also been anthologised and read on radio.

Kevin Bonnett’s recent poetry has appeared in Divan 6, Famous Reporter 32, and The Mozzie.

Janice M. Bostok has been writing haiku and its related forms for over thirty years. In 1972 she edited and published the first magazine in Australia which was devoted to haiku, TWEED, which ran until 1979.

Dawn Bruce has two collections of free verse and haiku – Stinging the Silence and Tangible Shadows (Ginninderra Press). Her haiku have appeared in a variety of outlets including paper wasp, Haiku Harvest, Yellow Moon, Moments, Tiny Words and Haiku Light.

Ron Buckstein lives near Byron Bay and is busy with computers, golf and Zen. He is a member of ‘cloudcatchers’.

Nathalie Buckland lives in Nimbin. She is a member of the local haiku groups ‘cloudcatchers’ and ‘Wollumbin Haiku Workshop’ and has had her poetry, including haiku, published both in Australia and overseas. She also sings with a women’s band.

Andrew Burke is an Australian writer with six books of poetry published, some small plays on stage decades ago, short stories in literary mags, and a novel written in the last couple of years waiting to be published. More of Andrew’s work can be found on his weblog ‘Hi Spirits’ at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/

Nola Clare is a writer living in northern New South Wales.

Anne Collins is a Tasmanian poet (The Season of Chance: Walleah Press, 2005), fiction writer and essayist. ‘Marion Bay’ is from a series of lyrical essays and poems on Tasmania titled ‘My Friends, This Landscape’.

Helen Davison is a member of ‘cloudcatchers’. She lives in Goonellabah in the Northern Rivers, NSW.

John Dawson spent five months last year travelling through South America by bicycle. He lives in Tasmania.

Sharon Trevelyan Dean lives with her sons and partner on the far north coast of NSW, where they run Willowbank Studio, a printmaking/art therapy space. Working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Griffith University, Sharon is fascinated with Japanese literary forms and loves "goin’ on a ginko" with the ‘cloudcatchers’ haiku group. Her haiku, haibun and related articles have appeared in Yellow Moon, Stylus Poetry Journal, Haiku Dreaming Australia, Senryu Dreaming Australia and The World Haiku Review.

Barbara De Franceschi is an Australian poet who lives in Broken Hill, a small mining town in far western New South Wales. She has been published in literary journals and periodicals throughout Australia as well as on-line USA. Barbara’s first collection Lavender Blood was published in April 2004.

Michael de Valle writes haiku and short stories and lives in the Dandenong Ranges. His first collection of stories, Take a Breath & Hold It, was shortlisted in the 2006 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. A second collection of stories, Going Home, was recently published by Mockingbird/Ginninderra Press.

Carolyn Fisher lives on the north-west coast of Tasmania, and has had poems published in literary magazines and anthologies.

Lorin Ford lives and writes in Brunswick, Victoria. Her haiku have been published in print and online journals in Australia, Europe, Japan and America. She shared equal first prize in the 2004 paper wasp Jack Stamm Award.

Jane Gibian is a Sydney poet whose most recent publication is a chapbook of haiku, long shadows, (Vagabond Press, 2005). She works as a librarian, and studies Vietnamese and TESOL.

Jen Gibson is a former anthropologist and oral historian. After having spent time in Tibet as well as many years in contact with indigenous Australian communities, Jen is currently living and writing in Tasmania again and loving it.

Jeff Guess: From a background of teaching English in high schools Jeff Guess now tutors at the University of South Australia and teaches poetry at the Adelaide Institute of TAFE. His eighth collection of poetry Winter Grace was launched during Writers’ Week in March 2004.

Helen Hagemann’s poetry explores the sensual world of place, identity, and being female. She lives in Western Australia.

Philip Hammial (b.1937) grew up in and around Detroit, Michigan. In 1972 he arrived in Sydney; he is now an Australian citizen, married with one child, and has been living in the Blue Mountains since 1994. Two of his poetry collections have been short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize — Bread in 2001 and In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter’s Children in 2004.

Jodie Hawthorne grew up in Wynyard and Rocky Cape on the northwet coast of Tasmania. She has spent many years studying, working and travelling in Asia. For the last eight years she has lived mainly in China and now calls Shangri-la (Degen Tibetan region) home. Watching Pilgrims Watching Me, her collection of haiku celebrating the people and landscape of Degen, is available from Pardalote Press.

Pete Hay - social theorist, essayist and poet with a particular interest in both theories of place, and the constructions of place meaning within Tasmania; the author of The View from the Non-Members’ Bar (Hazard Press, NZ, 1992), Vandiemonian Essays (Walleah Press, 2002), Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought (UNSWP / Indiana University Press / Edinburgh University Press, 2002), and Silently on the Tide (Walleah Press, 2005).

Leanne Hills is co-editor and co-initiator of Moving Galleries, a haiku/rooku project released on Melbourne’s trains in 2006.  Leanne has performed and discussed her work on radio, and at theatres, festivals and venues around Melbourne.  Her writing can be found in publications such as Overland, Frog Pond (US), Bravado (NZ), Ginyu Quarterly (Japan), Cordite, Paper Wasp, Going Down Swinging and Poetrix.

Marshall Hryciuk, recently moved with his wife to a beautifully-leaved street in West Toronto. Marshall is a recent winner of the 2006 Klostar Ivanic Croatian International Haiku Contest with his : in noon light/ a brown pine needle/ spinning above the ferns

Steve Isham writes and illustrates books for children in collaboration with his wife, Marion. Titles include Tiger Tale, Tasmanian Traveller and Draw Aussie Animals. He lives in Poverty Gully, Tasmania.

Vincent Ives is a Tasmanian writer.

Mary Jenkins has published essays, reviews and poems, usually with ecological themes. She lives in Tasmania.

Heather Taylor Johnson has had poetry and short fiction published in literary journals such as Southerly, Idiom 23 and New England Review. She’s currently the poetry editor of Wet Ink, a new literary magazine based in Adelaide. This year Heather was long-listed for the Australian/Vogel prize. She has also acted as literary event organizer, panel member, guest reader, film reviewer and workshop leader.

Martin R. Johnson is presently working on a follow-up to his collection of poems Living with Ghosts - the Gawler poems, which traced the history of the South Australian town from 1839-2000. Martin’s new collection will look at life in contemporary Gawler.

Courtney Jones is a Tasmanian writer.

Meredith Jones lives in Sydney’s inner west. She teaches media and cultural studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her blog ‘Marrickvillia’ can be reached at http://marrickvillia.blogspot.com/

David Kelly has moved into Ivo Ellis’s old house in Euroa. Recently while digging up a garden in a nearby farm he was watched for several hours by a fluffy-eared sleepy-dreamy real-live-wild koala in a tree.

Andy Kissane writes fiction and poetry. He recently won the inaugural BTG - Blue Dog Poetry Reviewing Competition for his review of Dennis McDermott’s book, Dorothy’s Skin. His latest books are Every Night They Dance (Five Islands Press) and Under the Same Sun (Sceptre).

Karen Knight is a Tasmanian writer whose poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Best Australian Poems 2005 edited by Les Murray. Her most recent collection is the chapbook Doctor Says (Picaro Press).

Jules Leigh Koch lives in Adelaide. His first shared collection of poems ‘A Strip Of Negatives’ appeared in Friendly Street New Poets 4, launched by Wakefield Press at Adelaide Writers’ Week 1998. His first sole volume of poems ‘Each Goldfish is Hand Painted’ was published in 2002, also at the Adelaide Writers’ Week.

Roland Leach’s three collections of poetry are Shorelines: Three Poets (Fremantle Arts Press), drowning ophelia (Sunline) and darwin’s pistols & other poems (Picaro Press). He is the proprietor of Sunline Press, a publishing venture to publish Australian poets in elegant hardbacks.

Douglas Lockhart is the author of such titles as Sabazius, Jesus the Heretic and The Dark Side of God. With Robin Mosley, he manages Hobart’s Deja Vu bookshop in Salamanca Place.

Peter Macrow’s oil slick sun: haiku was published by Pardalote Press in November 2005. He edits and publishes Blue Giraffe poetry biannual, edits a haiku page for poam and is poetry editor for the ezine, The Tasmanian Times. His published work also includes longer poems, poetry for children and short fiction.

Robyn Mathison has lived in Hobart since 1975, and is a stalwart of Hobart’s writing world. A poet and short story writer, reviewer and essayist, bridge-builder and mender of metaphorical fences, Robyn has worked tirelessly on the committees of writers’ organisations such as the former Tasmanian Writers Union, and the Fellowship of Australian Writers; has acted as a competition coordinator and judge, and as a representative for Tasmanian poetry in the pages of interstate newsletters for the Melbourne Poets Union and the Poets Union.

Shane McCauley is a West Australian writer. His most recent collection is Glassmaker, a hard-cover collection from Sunline Press, 2005.

Lorraine McGuigan’s poems have been published in Australia, UK and USA. Since 1995, the Managing Editor of Monash University’s Poetry Monash. Her poetry collection, What The Body Remembers (Five Islands Press) shared second place in the FAW Anne Elder Award 2004.

David McLaren is a Melbourne-based poet and short story writer.

Shana Michele, mother, tarot reader, published poet is Vice President of North Coast’s NSW Dangerously Poetic Press and co-editor of their anthology, To the Edge, Poetry From Byron Bay and Beyond.

Bob Morrow grew up in Sydney and settled in Melbourne in 1981. He fell into poetry while in Ireland, searching for his forebears’ roots. Now retired, he divides his time between the city, the bush and a Bass Strait beach.

Derek Motion is a writer & editor living in NSW. He has also had work in Vibewire, FourW, Cordite, Otoliths & Meanjin.

Graham Nunn is a Brisbane based writer, current Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word (www.queenslandpoetryfestival.net) and founding member of performance group SpeedPoets. Graham’s first collection, A Zen Firecracker - selected haiku was released in 2003.  His latest collection, of haiku and haibun, Measuring the Depth, is published by Pardalote Press. Both titles are available by emailing the author at geenunn@yahoo.com.au or through the Pardalote Press website www.pardalote.com.au

B.N. Oakman is an economist whose prize-winning short fiction and poetry has appeared in Overland, Southerly, Westerly, Northern Perspective, Australian Short Stories, The Australian, The Age, Imago, The Canberra Times, The Mozzie, in anthologies used in schools, and elsewhere.

Mark O’Flynn has published numerous short stories, a novella and two collections of poems, and a play. Grassdogs, his first novel, won the Varuna Award for Manuscript Development. Mark lives in the Blue Mountains.

Merle Packham, a retired music teacher, and great grandmother, has come to haiku late in life and is fascinated by it.

Jillian Pattinson is an Australian poet. Her work has been published in Island, Meanjin, Blue Dog Australian Poetry, Famous Reporter, Tarralla, Poetrix, Yellow Moon, the Newcastle Poetry Prize anthologies in 2004 and 2005, with new work in forthcoming editions of Meanjin and Going Down Swinging. Her poetry has been broadcast on ABC Radio, telecast on Red Lobster (Channel 31, Melbourne and Sydney) and commended in the MPU International Poetry Competition 2005 and the Shoalhaven Literary Award for Poetry 2006.

Rachael Petridis lives in Fremantle. Her poems have been published in newspapers, periodicals and numerous anthologies, mainly in Western Australia. She enjoys singing with the University of WA. Choral Society.

Mark Prendergast has been published in various journals including Centoria, Famous Reporter, and Overland. He has read at the Dan O’Connell, Passionate Tongues, and Spinning Room poetry sessions in Melbourne, where he lives.

Saxby Pridmore is a widely published poet. He lives in Hobart.

Lyn Reeves is a Tasmanian writer whose poetry, stories and haiku have been published widely in journals and anthologies throughout Australia and overseas. She is the manager of Pardalote Press.

E.K. Roe is a Tasmanian writer.

Max Ryan - to paraphrase Judith Beveridge: the poem, not the poet. His book, Rainswayed Night, Dangerously Poetic Press, won the 2005 FAW Anne Elder Award.

Lel Sebastian’s poems have appeared in Blue Dog Australian Poetry, Poetrix and Five Bells, and been broadcast on Radio National’s ‘PoeticA’. She has co-edited two Dangerously Poetic Press anthologies, and edited Max Ryan’s award-winning first book of poems, Rainswayed Night.

Laura Jan Shore, author of The Sacred Moon Tree, (Bradbury Press, 1986) and Breathworks, (Dangerously Poetic Press, 2002) has had recent poems in The Australian, Blue Dog, Famous Reporter, Five Bells, Yellow Moon and many anthologies. ‘Why Poetry?’ won first prize in the 2006 C.J. Dennis Literary Award.

Flora Smith – as an ex-foreign language teacher, Flora wrote a history book and several short stories before turning to poetry three years ago. She has been published in magazines and journals throughout Australia, including Westerly, Tirra Lirra and Marginata. She writes about people, their longings, struggles, hopes and dreams.

Jacqui Stewart was born in Adelaide, but now lives in Perth. Involved in music and drama when young, she began writing while living in the Pilbara where she did a correspondence course in Creative Writing. A late starter, she now writes mainly poetry. She’s been published in the West Australian, Patterns, and various anthologies.

Bev Sweeney has evolved from public servant to poet and performer. A founding member of ‘Dangerously Poetic’, she has had her poetry published in several anthologies. She won the 2006 Byron Bay Writers’ Festival Poetry Prize with her poem ‘Sailing’.

Tim Thorne is the author of ten volumes of poetry, the most recent being Best Bitter (PressPress, May 2006). Tim was for many years the Director of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival, and is the managing editor of Cornford Press.

Anne Traynor lives in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. A sociologist in a past life, she has just completed a Masters in Creative Writing and is trying her hand at writing short fiction.

Jacqueline Turner is a Canadian poet who lives in the Horseshoe Bay area of Vancouver, British Columbia. She has published two book length collections with ECW Press: Into the Fold (2000) and Careful (2003), as well as numerous chapbooks. She founded a literary magazine called filling station that has been publishing international writing for the last ten years. Her latest book Seven into Even (ECW Press) used the poetic diction of Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queen’ in a contemporary context to see differing literary moments collide and resound.

Louise Waller is a Queensland poet whose first collection Slipway was published in Swelter (Interactive Press 2003). Recent poetry has appeared in Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, Idiom 23, Haiku Review, Papertiger, & Silence/Stories Part 11 (uglybeautycage). Louise is Poetry Reviews Editor for Foam:e.

Ralph Wessman publishes famous reporter with the support of Arts Tasmania.

John West is a prolific poet whose collections include All I Ever Wanted Was a
Window (Pardalote Press), Stuttering Towards Love, (Walleah Press, 2000), Mal (Sidewalk) and Falling over Jogging.

Les Wicks seventh book of poetry is Stories of the Feet (Five Islands, 2004). Wicks has been a guest at most of Australia’s literary festivals, toured widely and been published in well over 150 newspapers, anthologies and magazines across nine countries in seven languages.

Quendryth Young came to haiku from a background in poetry. Her second book of verse, Naked in Sepia, won the Fast Books Self-Published Poetry Award in 2004 and the Society of Women Writers Award for a Book of Poetry 2005. She won the New Zealand Haiku Competition in 2005, and the haiku sequence in Yellow Moon in the same year, as well as numerous other awards for poetry and haiku. Quendryth coordinates a group of haiku enthusiasts, called ‘cloudcatchers’, in north-east NSW. She is a wife, grandmother, and a retired cytologist, with interests in travel, bridge and singing in the Alstonville Chorale.

Maria Zajkowski’s poetry has been published in journals such as Landfall (NZ), The Best Australian Poems 2003, Verandah, Sport, Overland, Heat and Papertiger.