Member Profiles

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 (MA) is an editor and poet, born in Rome and based in Sydney. She has a background in commercial book publishing with Routledge, Collins and Heinemann (London) and…

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Valerie Clifford

Valerie has spent a third of her life in the UK, a third in New Zealand and a third in Australia, with sojourns in Belize and Fiji, and brief work…

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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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Sally Jane Smith

Sally Jane Smith has lived on five continents and visited thirty-three countries, but she gives credit to Greece for turning her into a writer. She has worked in museums, universities,…

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Kelly Van Nelson

Kelly is the author of six books, including #1 bestsellers Graffiti Lane, Punch and Judy, and Retrospective. Her contemporary poetry has featured in numerous publications and her books are frequently gifted to A-list…

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Jan Conway

Newly retired in 2009, Jan searched for a pastime that would be creative and fulfilling. Decluttering one day, she rediscovered stories written by her children years earlier when the family…

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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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