Emma Lew lives in Melbourne. Her collection Anything the Landlord Touches won the 2003 C.J. Dennis Award (the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry) and the Judith Wright Award (the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry), two of the leading literary prizes in Australia. It was republished in the UK by Shearsman Books earlier this year. Emma Lew’s first volume The Wild Reply won The Age Poetry Book of the Year Award in 1997.

MTC Cronin has published fourteen books (including several in translation) the most recent being The Flower, the Thing (UQP, 2006). She has five books forthcoming, in the USA, the UK, Australia and France. Currently she lives in Maleny, Australia.

Nathan Thompson lives in Exeter. His poems and reviews appear, or are forthcoming, in magazines and webzines including Stride, Shearsman and Great Works. In 2007 a selection of prose poems will be published in A Combustible Edge, a Bluechrome anthology of new prose poets edited by Rupert Loydell. Nathan does not have a favourite colour, but if anyone who reads this has invented a new one, preferably primary, he would love to hear from them.

Sheila E. Murphy's most recent books are Incessant Seeds (Pavement Saw Press, 2005) and Proof of Silhouettes (Stride Press, 2004). Her home is in Phoenix, Arizona, where she founded and coordinated for 12 years the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series.

Derrick Buttress's poems have appeared recently in Ambit, Magma, Critical Survey and many other magazines. A collection of memoirs, Broxtowe Boy was published by Shoestring Press in 2004. A poetry collection, My Life as a

Minor Character was published also by Shoestring Press in 2005. A further

collection of memoirs and poems is to be published by the same press in

2007.

Helen Clare's collection Mollusc is available from Comma Press.

Juan Garrido-Salgado was born in Chile where, for a time, he was held as a political prisoner by the Pinochet regime. His poetry has been published widely in Latin America and Spain as well as Australia. Five Islands Press released his Collected Poems in 2004. Juan’s Spanish translation of MTC Cronin’s Talking to Neruda’s Questions was published in Chile by Safo Press in 2005. He has lived in Adelaide with his family since 1990.

Anamaria Crowe Serrano’s  poetry has appeared in Shadowtrain, Shearsman (UK), Jacket (AUS), Masthead (AUS), Default (IRL), (Osiris) Red Pagoda Press pamphlet series (USA), Rattapallax (USA), Osiris (USA, June/July 06), World Haiku Review, Poeti e Poesia (IT), Triskell (IT), and Pagine (IT).  Other publications include Paso Doble, a collection of poems written with the Italian poet, Annamaria Ferramosca, published by Empiria, Rome, in March 2006; a collection of short stories, translated into Italian (Italian title, Dall’altra parte), Leconte, Rome, 2003; and The Interpreter, a one act play (Delta3 Edizioni), 2003. She has written two novels which are pending publication. The first of these, Behind the Tapestry, was co-written with Riccardo Duranti. It traces the life of Thomas Shelton, an Irishman who was the first ever translator of Cervantes’ Don Quijote.