Louise Crisp is a writer and environmental activist based in East Gippsland (Gunaikurnai Country). Louise is the author of 'Yuiquimbiang', shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and highly commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize; and 'pearl & sea fed', shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. An essay 'Holding Pattern', on Snowy River environmental flows was shortlisted in the Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize.
Louise's latest poetry collection is 'Glide' (Puncher and Wattman 2021). Recent work has been published in Best of Australian Poems 2021, Overland and Cordite Poetry Review.
Lizz Murphy writes poetry that is ‘sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing’ in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry. Lizz has published fourteen books. Her ninth poetry title is 'The Wear of my Face' (Spinifex Press, 2021) which won the ACT Notable Award for Poetry (Big Press) 2021. Born in Belfast, Lizz has lived in Binalong in rural NSW/Canberra Region since 1981.