Carmel Summers is a Canberra poet. Her poetry has been published in journals in Australia and overseas as well as in anthologies and The Canberra Times. She has been short-listed in poetry prizes, including the Blake, ACU, June Shenfield, Glen Phillips, Magic Oxygen and Grieve. Her work includes a range of genres, including Japanese forms, formal and unstructured poetry and she is currently exploring new ways of opening up history through poetry.

Her experimental tanka book, The last day before snow, written in response with eight other Australian poets, including Kathy Kituai won the ACT Publishers Award for Poetry in 2017. Her collection, Lost in the Pleiades, inspired by the Pleiades or Seven Sisters constellation was published in 2023. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Macquarie University and is currently writing a poetic biography of Elizabeth Cook as part of her PhD at the University of Canberra.

EA Gleeson

E A Gleeson has finally achieved the status of being a writer in that she spends more time writing than engaging in any of her other occupations, Education, Coaching, Pastoral Care and Funeral Care.
She has published four collections of poetry, the most recent, The Deepest Thing, a poetic memoir was launched six weeks ago. In The Deepest Thing, Anne writes of how her sister’s life has been affected by disability but also tackles some of the social and political issues surrounding disability care in this country.
Readers have described The Deepest Thing as a powerful and moving memoir. In her previous three collections, Anne has included the stories of those whose voices are often discounted. In this book, she depicts the reality of her sister and father’s experience of disability, a sustained poetic voice in speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves.

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