PENELOPE LAYLAND
Penelope Layland is an award-winning poet and a former journalist, speechwriter and communications professional. Her 2018 collection Things I've thought to tell you since I saw you last was shortlisted for both the 2019 Kenneth Slessor Prize and the 2019 ACT Book of the Year, and won the ACT Publishing and Writing Award for poetry in 2019. Her most recent book is Nigh (Recent Work Press 2020) shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year.

PETER BAKOWSKI
A bounding deer in the long grass of poetry, Peter Bakowski’s poems continue to appear in literary journals worldwide.
In this century, Peter and his partner Helen, a clothes maker and textile enthusiast, have undertaken funded and self-funded creative residencies in Berlin, Macau, Suzhou (near Shanghai), Labastide Esparbaïrenque (near Carcassonne), Greenmount (near Perth, Western Australia), Battery Point, Hobart, at the Arthur Boyd estate, Bundanoon, New South Wales, and on the Greek island of Skopelos.

DENISE O'HAGAN
Denise O’Hagan is an award-winning editor and poet, born in Rome and based in Sydney. She has a background in commercial book publishing in Routledge, Collins and Heinemann (London) and Horwitz, Cambridge University Press and the State Library of NSW (Sydney). In 2015 she set up her own imprint, Black Quill Press, to publish her late mother’s historical novel Jerome & His Women (2015), shortlisted for the inaugural Institute of Professional Editors’ Rosanne Fitzgibbon Editorial Award (the ‘Rosie’).

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