CONTRIBUTORS

25: Generation of Zeroes

Guest Poetry Editor: alicia sometimes

alicia is a writer, poet and musician. Her first book kissing the curve was published through Five Islands Press in 2003. She has performed on radio many times and is a presenter on 3RRR with a weekly show 'Aural Text' dedicated to playing spoken word. She was also co-ordinator of the first ever national radio poetry slam on Radio National in 2004.

Alessandro Porco's first collection of poetry, The Jill Kelly Poems (2005), is published by ECW Press. His writings, both critical and creative, have appeared in a variety of publications, including Matrix, Queen Street Quarterly, nthposition, Essays on Canadian Writing, and Books in Canada.

Carol Jenkins lives in Sydney. Her work has appeared in various places such as the National Model Regulations for the Control of Hazardous Substances, Cordite, Snorkel, Overland, Island and Heat. More is on the way.

David Prater is Cordite's managing editor.

Derek Motion is a writer from NSW. He has been steadily working on dominating the Google top 10 for his name. He lives online at http://derekmotion.blogspot.com where you can find some of his other work.

Elena Knox's first collection, Fat Bad Plan, was published in 2002 by Vagabond Press. Her poetry has appeared in Southerly, Slope, Divan, LINQ, Sport (NZ), at the Sydney Opera House and on ABC TV.

Greg McLaren is a Sydney poet and critic. He is the author of Everything falls in (Vagabond, 2000) and Darkness diguised (Sidewalk, 2002). A new manuscript, "The Kurri Kurri Book of the Dead", awaits publication. Anybody?

Jeff Crouch is a writer in Grand Prairie, Texas. He plays at art as though it were a game of hide and go seek.

Jennifer Arthur is the new deed poll name of Jennifer Badstuebner, Executive Editor of AsiaRights, an online human rights journal.

Jill Jones' latest books are Broken/Open (Salt, 2005), Fold Unfold (Vagabond, 2005) and Where the Sea Burns (Picaro, 2004). She won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in 2003. She has collaborated with
photographer Annette Willis on a number of projects.

Joel Deane is a Melbourne-based novelist and poet. Visit his blog.

Klare Lanson is a Melbourne based artist working mainly in live arts
performance. She fuses poetry, gesture, electronic music and film to
create experimental performance works.

Kristine Ong Muslim has more than three hundred stories and poems published or forthcoming in mostly genre professional and small press magazines and anthologies.

Mark Garnett is a writer and barman living in Melbourne.

Maria Zajkowski has published her poetry and prose poetry in Australia and New Zealand and online. Journals include Heat, Overland, Landfall (NZ) and Sport (NZ). Her interest is in personal, social and cultural landscapes.

Monica Carroll lives and works in Canberra with her family. She is a widely published writer of short text. Her fictional works can be found in a number of journals and anthologies.

Nathan Shepherdson was born in Brisbane and now lives at the Glass House Mountains. He was the winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize in 2004 and 2006.

Peter O'Mara is a writer currently living in Hepburn Springs, Victoria. His writing and visual art concentrates on the the nature of everyday, subversive thought and our place and non place in the physical world.

rob walker is a South Australian poet and educator. His latest collection is micromacro (Seaview Press). Visit his website.

Stuart Cooke was born and educated in Sydney but now lives in Hobart. In 2006 his work appeared in magazines such as Antipodes, Blue
Dog, Famous Reporter and Overland.

Tara Motherwell completed a diploma of Writing and Editing in 2005 at Chisholm and is currently studying business administration.

Timothy Barbon lives in Frankston. He wrote poetry for Ripple in 1979. His photographs were published in Easey magazine for PBS FM.

Tiggy Johnson juggles study, young children and writing. Her words have appeared in Verandah, Tamba, AustralianReader, paper wasp, Polestar and The Mozzie.

Trisha Kotai-Ewers lives in a limestone farmhouse ten minutes from Fremantle in WA. She writes poetry and short prose as a creative respite from her PhD thesis on the history of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (WA) of which she is currently (still!) president.

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