Esther Ottaway is an award-winning poet from Tasmania/lutruwita. In 2020 her work was shortlisted in the global poetry prizes, the Montreal and the Bridport. Her work appears in Australian and US journals, the newspapers The Australian and The Canberra Times, and is widely anthologised, notably in University of Queensland Press’ "Thirty Australian Poets". Among her prizes are the Tom Collins Poetry Prize and the Queensland Poetry Festival Ekphrasis Award, and her collection, "Intimate, Low-voiced, Delicate Things", is currently longlisted in the Tasmanian Literary Awards. At this reading, Esther will premiere her dynamic new work – poems on disability and gender exploring the little-heard voices of women and girls on the autism spectrum, to be released next year as a collection titled "She Doesn’t Seem Autistic".

John Foulcher has written twelve books of poetry, the most recent being "Dancing with Stephen Hawking" (Pitt Street Poetry 2021). His work has appeared in Australian magazines and anthologies over nearly forty years, and he has won or been short-listed for many awards, including the National Library Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the ACU Poetry Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and the Montreal International Poetry Prize. In 2010-11 he was the Literature Board’s resident at the Keesing Studio in Paris. His books can be purchased from pittstreetpoetry.com.