Member Profiles

Eva Rottenanger

My first international journey was in 1961 when my family migrated from Germany to Australia, stopping along the way in places like Cairo, Karachi and Singapore. That trip spawned the…

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Jo Oliver

Jo’s biography of artist Jessie Traill was published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2020 and her biography of artist Adelaide Perry was published by ASP in 2022. Four children’s picture…

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Margaret Zanardo

Margaret Zanardo is a Sydney poet, writer and graphic designer. She has a background in languages, art and English literature. In recent years she has tutored in high school English…

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Lesley Brydon AM

After a long career in corporate communications and public health advocacy, Lesley feared she had written too many media releases and submissions to ever become a more creative writer. But…

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Anne Maria Nicholson

Anne Maria Nicholson is a prominent journalist, author and public speaker who has worked for many of Australia’s major media organisations, as well as internationally. Anne Maria has written three…

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Sharon Rundle

Sharon Rundle, Institute of Professional Editors; Chair, UTS Writers’ Alumni. Co-editor of five anthologies of short fiction from Australia and South Asia, including her latest – Relatively True. Her stories,…

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Denise O'Hagan

Denise O’Hagan is an editor and poet, born in Rome and based in Sydney. She has a background in commercial book publishing, working for Routledge, Heinemann and Collins and consulting…

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Valerie Clifford

Valerie was born in London and educated in the UK. As a teenager, she learnt to sail which ignited a life-long passion for sailing and the sea.  In her…

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Katrina Kittel

Katrina holds a Bachelor of Arts/Science (History, Geography) as well as a Masters degree in leadership and management, and a Graduate diploma in information science/library studies. Katrina worked for 27…

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