Writers
Marja Baume has had stories published in two other anthologies. Currently she is writing a crime novel set in the Netherlands. Last year she completed her Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS. And for fun she attends French conversation classes.
Craig Bingham is enrolled in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS.
As a scientist, Mary Blackwood worked in labs, in classrooms and then at a computer writing international tests. This last job led to a compulsion to travel. After wandering the world in 2006 she enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Writing at UTS. Two other short stories appear in Flaunt.
Cameron Brockmann is currently holed up in a cupboard, completing his Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS, and taking refuge from the cast of increasingly strange characters demanding to be written into a comedic literary novella that requires a long research trip to windy Trans-Siberian cities, and several jokes about herring.
Eleanor Campbell is completing her Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS. This is the first time her work has ventured into print.
Rosie Cintio lives in the Blue Mountains with six other people who come and go. Her waitressing job is often what keeps her coming back to UTS, where she is in her final year of a Writing and Cultural Studies degree.
John Connell is an Irish writer and documentary maker. He has lived in Sydney for the last two years wherein he completed his journalism studies at UTS. Currently John works as a freelance producer for ABC Radio National.
Amaryllis Gacioppo is undertaking a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Cultural Studies at UTS. She is on her way to a promising career as a starving writer.
Veronica Nadine Gleeson made her foray into writing at age eight, with a volume of poetry dedicated to Spike Milligan. Later she became a film reviewer and playwright, and over the last few years she's turned her attention to screenplays and fiction as well. She loves writing and is mostly glad she took it up. But she does sometimes regret not sending that book to Spike.
Susan Hurley is completing her Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS and working on her second novel - a contemporary crime story set in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
A. Alice Knight finally decided to stop procrastinating and became a postgraduate writing student at UTS. She no longer has any excuses and now has to keep working on the stories which torment her. She also believes she is old enough to know better, but usually doesn't.
Zac Kostyrka likes to take himself very, very seriously. He has a Canadian passport, he's allowed. Having lived in Chicago and London he returned to Sydney to study Cultural Studies and Writing at UTS. As part of his fifty-year plan to revolutionise Australian television he's off to the States to finish his degree and make it big in New York City. If that falls through, there's always Canada.
Isabelle Li was born in China and came to Australia in 1999. Her short stories appeared in the UTS Writers' Anthologies 2005, 2007 and 2008, Best Australian Stories 2007 and Best Australian Stories 2008, Southerly and New Australian Stories.
Nerida Little is in her fifth year of a Writing, Cultural Studies and International Studies degree. She was born in Coffs Harbour, and is currently finishing an exchange year in India. The experience has been interesting, but she never wants to see a plate of daal again.
Brenton Lyle is currently in his second year of a Bachelor in Writing and Cultural Studies at UTS.
Georgia Middleton is currently studying a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in Writing and Cultural Studies at UTS. After many false starts and lost stories, her one ambition in life is to have the perfect story flow from a tangled web of thoughts in her head in order to write a novel - and finish it.
Laurie Molloy grew up in New Zealand, backpacked around the world, raised a child, collected a couple of left-brain degrees and pursued a career in IT. Now she's unleashed her right brain, has just completed the Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS and is determined to finish at least one novel.
Emma Oberg is currently studying Writing and Cultural Studies/Bachelor of Law at UTS. Although she is living in the city, her heart still belongs in the bush. This year she hopes that it rains.
Tobias O'Hehir is studying writing at UTS. He likes to arrange and rearrange words on a page-luckily for him they sometimes make sense, or not, as the case may be.
Corinne Pentecost is about to complete her Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS. 'Snow Angel' was awarded the Cate Kennedy Best New Talent Prize in the 2008 Scarlet Stiletto Awards.
Justine Poon is studying a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts and Law at UTS. She was published in Going Down Swinging last year. She would like to be a houseboat-dweller in the future, where she will continue to write.
Sinead Roarty tells stories. During the day she makes up all sorts of things as a copywriter and then tells tales all night. She's got a Master of Arts in Visual Arts and is doing a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS while trying to finish her first book. Her short story, 'White', appeared in last year's anthology.
Daniel Shaw grew up in the north of England and studied English at Middlesex. He is currently studying his Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS. Pursuits: candles, pugs and Martha Wainwright.
Tyswan Slater lives in an unfashionable backwater in the Blue Mountains. She has been shortlisted for the Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development, and the Penguin/Varuna Scholarship. Her Master of Creative Arts (Research) involves a novella, a graphic novel, hypertext, a vampire, a murder and a motley crew of backpackers.
Sam Twyford-Moore completed his degree in Communications, majoring in Writing and Cultural Studies, at UTS in 2008. He is currently the co-editor of Cutwater. His writing has appeared in Meanjin, The Big Issue and other places. 'Revision' is a sequel of sorts to an unpublished novel.
Alicia Walsh has a Masters in Creative Writing from UTS. She works as an editor of both screenplays and manuscripts, and is in the process of finishing her first novel.
Conrad Walters is studying towards a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS. He lives inside his head for fiction, and on the pages of The Sydney Morning Herald for non-fiction.
While not writing essays for her other subjects, Emma Went is studiously ignoring her undergraduate writing homework. She believes that writing would be a far more enjoyable task if she never had to commit words to the page. She's yet to find a satisfactory way to achieve this.
Jane Wilcox is a freelance writer/journalist and TV producer. It was the only way she could indulge a passion for science, sport, film, theatre, medicine, food, current affairs and human rights. At primary school she won a special prize 'For Trying'. She's never won anything else. She is currently completing a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS.
J.S Woerner lives in Sydney with her two children, Kate and Harrison, and her guy, Christopher. She is studying Writing and Cultural Studies at UTS.
Amy Yang is studying Writing and Cultural Studies and International Studies at UTS. At the moment she is in Granada-Southern Spain-in a room without a door but with a view. So far she thinks travelling is hallucinatory, living is physical, and writing is the comfort which drives her exhaustion.
