Blue Dog Editors
S.K. Kelen (ACT)
S. K. Kelen has travelled extensively and now lives in Australia's city of trees and other things. He often lectures and tutors in Poetry, Creative Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Canberra. His most recent books of poems are Goddess of Mercy (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2002), and Earthly Delights (Pandanus, 2006).
joanne burns (NSW)
joanne burns has had more than a dozen collections of poetry and short fiction published, most recently, footnotes of a hammock (Five Islands Press 2004). A new collection, an illustrated history of dairies, is forthcoming from Giramondo Publishing. She has taught creative writing for many years, and been a judge and assessor for numerous poetry prizes and projects. In 2006 she received an Australia Council New Work Grant in the Established Poets category.
Terry Whitebeach (NT)
Terry Whitebeach writes in a number of genres. Her first collection of poetry Bird Dream won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize. Her other published work includes a second collection of poetry, two young adult novels, three radio plays and a biography. She holds BA and MA degrees in English and a PhD in History (Biography).
Louise Oxley (TAS)
Louise Oxley's poetry has been widely published over the last ten years. Her prizes include the Bruce Dawe, Tom Collins and Melbourne Poets Union awards. She is represented in Moorilla Mosaic, an anthology of Tasmanian writing, and in the Wagtail series. Her second collection Open Water, is due out with Five Islands Press next year. Louise has served on Arts Tasmania advisory panels and the Tasmanian Writers Centre board.
Claire Gaskin (VIC)
Claire Gaskin's collection entitled a bud was published by John Leonard Press in 2006, and was shortlisted in the John Bray SA Festival Awards for Literature in 2008. She is the 2009 recipient of the Alan Marshall scholarship. She has been a long-term teacher of writing and literature in adult education.
Tracy Ryan (WA)
Tracy Ryan is a WA writer who has also spent some time living in the UK and the USA. Her most recent book of poetry,Scar Revision, and a novel, Sweet, was published by Fremantle Press in 2008. In April this year she won the ABR Poetry Prize for her poem 'Lost Property'.
Graham Nunn (QLD)
Graham Nunn is a Brisbane based writer, current Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival: 'spoken in one strange word', co-publisher and editor of Small Change Press and a founding member of the performance group SpeedPoets. His work has been described as assured, achieved and ambitious. He has published 4 collections of poetry, the latest, Ruined Man is now available from Small Change Press. For more information go to www.myspace.com/grahamnunn
Jill Jones (SA)
Jill Jones won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize for Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems, and her work appears in The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry and the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. Her poems have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Czech and Spanish. She has collaborated with photographer Annette Willis on a number of multimedia projects, which have featured at festivals, galleries, and other events throughout Australia. Her most recent book is Broken/Open (Salt, 2005). She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.