Contributors - Volume 5, 2011

• Joanne Anderson
  Joanne Anderson is a Master of Arts student in writing at Swinburne University of Technology.
• Jennifer Compton
  Jennifer Compton lives in the foothills of the Dandenongs on the outskirts of Melbourne. Her most recent book of poetry - Barefoot - was published in May 2010 by Picaro Press. 
• Karina Quinn
  Karina Quinn is an emerging writer with specific interests in queer theory, fictocriticism, and post-structuralist and feminist theories of the body, subjectivity, and self. She writes short fiction, poetry, and fictocriticism, and has completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. She is now a PhD student at La Trobe University.
• John Ryan
  John Charles Ryan is a PhD Candidate in the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University. His dissertation 'A Poetics of Plants In-Becoming' explores the native flora of the Southwest of Western Australia through poetry, ethnography and walking. Some of his plant poems have been published in the  journals SWAMP, Philament, Perilous Adventures, and Landscapes.  
• Heather Taylor
  Heather Taylor is a poetry editor for Wet Ink magazine. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide and she is the author of the poetry collection Exit Wounds. She also reviews poetry and other art forms for various publications.
• Rachel Towns
  Rachel Towns is a voracious reader and beginning to be almost as voracious with her writing. She is also a Teacher and an almost perpetual student. She lives in Melbourne with her husband Paulo and two cats (Biggles and Duck) and a laptop that is increasingly taking over her life, leading her in the directions of fantasy, historical fiction and young adult stories, as well as poetry, when she can fit it in.
  
• Paul Williamson
  Paul Williamson lives in Canberra in Australia.  He is a published emerging poet who writes on eclectic topics.  His poetry arrived after three research degrees (two in Science and one nominally in Arts but probably in Sociology).  His jobs have been in Earth Sciences.  He writes  poems to clarify feelings and impressions, then record them.