Sydney Writers' Festival 2010

KATE LILLEY (LOCAL)
KATE LILLEY started publishing poetry regularly as a teenager. Her first book of poems, Versary, won the Grace Leven Prize and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award. Her second, Ladylike, is forthcoming. Kate teaches feminist literary history and theory at the University of Sydney and has published widely on early modern women’s writing, queer theory and contemporary poetry.

ANTHONY LAWRENCE (LOCAL)
ANTHONY LAWRENCE has published 12 books of poems. His most recent collection, Bark, was shortlisted for the 2008 Judith Wright Calanthe Award and The Age Book of the Year Awards. His individual poems and books have won many major awards, and his poetry has been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish and Slovenian. The Welfare of my Enemy, a verse novel, is forthcoming. He is currently completing a PhD on the poetry of Richard Hugo.

also appearing at...
151: The Sydney Poetry Reading II
196: Poets Paint Words II - Poets Read I

JUDITH BISHOP (LOCAL)
JUDITH BISHOP is a Sydney poet, linguist and translator. Event, her first collection, won the Anne Elder award and was shortlisted in the 2008 Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Awards. Judith is currently working on a second collection and translations from French poet Gérard Macé.

also appearing at...
220: Poets Paint Words II - Poets Read II

JANE GIBIAN (LOCAL)
JANE GIBIAN is a Sydney poet whose most recent collection is Ardent. In 2002 she was an Asialink Literature Resident in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her previous publications include The Body’s Navigation and a chapbook of haiku, long shadows. She works as a librarian and ESL teacher, and studies Vietnamese.

also appearing at...
259: Poets Paint Words II - Poets Read III

ROBERT GRAY (LOCAL)
ROBERT GRAY is a recipient of many grants from the Australia Council, and he describes himself as "a creature of the Literature Board". Robert has published eight volumes of poetry, and his Selected Poems has been through six reprints after it was set as a high school text. A further revised edition of his poems will appear in 2010. His memoir, The Land I Came Through Last, concerns his eccentric relatives and some notable figures he has known. His poetry has been published in book form in China, Germany, Holland and the UK, he has read at literary festivals and universities, and has been a writer-in-residence on numerous occasions in Asia, Europe, the UK and North America. He has won major Australian literary awards.

also appearing at...
76: Lived Lives
107: The Poet’s Voice
259: Poets Paint Words II - Poets Read III

IVY IRELAND (LOCAL)
IVY IRELAND is a PhD student and casual lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. Ivy was one of the Poets' Union Australian Young Poets Fellows in 2007, which culminated in the launch of her first book, Incidental Complications. Ivy has a penchant for mysticism, cosmology and cabaret, and is often found performing as a harpist, magician's assistant, tap dancer and spoken-word artist.

also appearing at...
196: Poets Paint Words II - Poets Read I

MICHAEL BRENNAN (LOCAL)
MICHAEL BRENNAN’s first collection, The Imageless World, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry and won the Mary Gilmore Award. Brennan’s second collection, Unanimous Night, was released in 2008. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo, the Australian editor of www.poetryinternational.org and director of Vagabond Press. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Italian.

also appearing at...
259: Poets Paint Words II - Poets Read III
317: Poetry as Passion: A Tribute to Dorothy Porter

MARK TREDINNICK (LOCAL)
MARK TREDINNICK is a poet, essayist and writing teacher. He lives and writes in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where he runs the Cowshed Classes. Much of Mark’s writing engages with landscape and literature - with the syntax of places and the ecology of paragraphs. Mark’s awards include the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Blake Poetry Prize, the Calibre Essay Prize and the Wildcare Nature Writing Prize. His seven books include The Land’s Wild Music, The Little Red Writing Book, The Little Green Grammar Book, The Road South and The Blue Plateau.
 marktredinnick.com.au

also appearing at...
25: Writing Places
73: The Art of Fact: Workshop with Mark Tredinnick
101: The Art of Fact: Workshop with Mark Tredinnick
196: Poets Paint Words II - Poets Read I
337: Much Ado About Grammar