Reha Mohammad was born in Afghanistan and grew up in Ghor, where he finished his schooling. He graduated as Bachelor of Arts in Dari/Farsi Literature and Humanities at Herat University. In Kabul, he taught Farsi literature in private schools and contributed essays to Hasht e Subh and other national print media. He came to Australia […]

Sarah Day’s Slack Tide (Pitt Street Poetry) was published in 2022. Her previous books have won the Queensland Premier’s and ACT prizes and been shortlisted for the NSW, Tasmanian Premier’s, and Prime Minister’s awards. She has collaborated with musicians, and judged national poetry, fiction, and nature-writing competitions. Her poem, ‘l’Orpheline’, was shortlisted in this year’s Peter Porter […]

Sevana Ohandjanian is a writer, translator and film programmer of Armenian descent, living and writing on Wallumedegal land. Her work can be found in Meanjin, Chogwa, The Suburban Review, Shabby Doll House, The Wrong Quarterly, Tincture, SBS and more. Her unpublished manuscript Black Grass was shortlisted for the 2017 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Prize. […]

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. He won the 2018 Castello di Duino Poesia Prize, Italy, and the 2022 Special ANMIG poetry prize, organized by the Centro Giovanni e Poesia di Truiggio, Italy. In 2023, he was a runner-up in the Sparks Poetry Competition, Memorial University, Canada and in the African and African-American Studies Program […]

Pam Brown lives in Sydney on Gadigal land. She has been active in the Australian poetry scene in diverse modes for five decades & has published many books, pamphlets & chapbooks. A new collection of poems, Guess the Experience, is out from Hunter Publishers in October 2025.       Blueprint   on the murray’s […]

Babi Rani Poudel (she/her) is a 52-year-old trans woman, born and raised in Nepal and now an Australian citizen by conferral. A professional chef, community support worker, writer, and storyteller, she is a passionate advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights and people living with HIV (PLHIV). Babi works tirelessly to support international students, asylum seekers, and marginalized […]

Alison J Barton is a Wiradjuri poet based in Melbourne. Themes of race relations, Aboriginal-Australian history, colonisation, gender and psychoanalytic theory are central to her poetry. She was the inaugural winner of the Cambridge University First Nations Writer-in-Residence Fellowship and received a Varuna Mascara Residency. Her debut collection, Not Telling is published by Puncher and […]

Šime Knežević was born in 1985 and lives in Sydney. His debut poetry chapbook, The Hostage, was published by Subbed In. His poetry has appeared in Ambit (UK), Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, Going Down Swinging, Magma (UK), SAND (Germany), Signal House Edition, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and elsewhere. Šime was a recipient […]