Mardi May is a member of the KSP Management Committee and Literary Advisors Board. She has facilitated the Past Tense Group since its inception 11 years ago and the Poets@KSP Group since 2008. Her poetry has won prizes and is published in many literary magazines and anthologies. She writes poetry on shopping lists.

Rose's poetry and short stories appear in Westerly, Landscapes, Cordite, Australian Poetry, paper wasp, The Heron's Nest, and placed in literary competitions. She has judged poetry prizes, read at festivals, Voice Box and the Supper Club, and is Editor for Creatrix Haiku. Her poetry collection, Sandfire, is published by Sunline Press.

Shey lives in Two Rocks, WA. Her poetry is published in Cordite Poetry Review, Westerly, Award Winning Australian Writing 2014, Australian Love Poems 2013, Regime, Islet, dotdotdash, Trove and others. She won the Karen Treanor Poetry Prize in 2013 and 2014. Her new chapbook, APORIAC, will be published by Finishing Line Press in August 2016.

Maggie Van Putten is a long-time member of KSP. Her poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies and she has read at various venues in Western Australia. She is also a regular contributor to the weekendnotes.com blog.

Flora Smith’s poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies around Australia. Her poems appear in Sandfire, published by Sunline Press. Her love of travel combined with a life of language teaching has led to her fascination with people, a subject ever-present in her poetry.

Anna lives in Darlington, WA. She is a retired psychotherapist for adult survivors of severe child abuse. An abuse survivor, she finds poetry to be an important part of healing, and expressing her own experiences. She enjoys singing in a choir based in the Perth Hills, swims and walks regularly and has practised Yoga for over 35 years.

I am an ardent swimmer, singer and quilter, a part-time poet, a retired nurse, a full-time campaigner for aged care and most rewardingly a mother of 3 children whom I love beyond compare.

Andrew is a writer, artist and musician with degrees in communications and writing. Andrew’s poems and short stories are published and have won awards. Currently he volunteers at the KSP Writers’ Centre while undertaking a PhD in fantasy-fiction. He aims to professionally teach creative writing.

Graeme Butler lives in the Avon Valley in Western Australia. Having retired from teaching he is a practicing sculptor who also pursues research interests into philosophical hermeneutics. His poetry compliments both of these practices in its reflection of his passionate sensibility for the natural environment.

Mimma Tornatora has been published in many Australian magazines, journals and anthologies, performed in WA and loves everything KSP. She is currently writing two chapters for a book commemorating Blackboy Hill. Mimma is a firm believer that poets are a vulnerable breed who need to be treated with sensitivity and respect.

Living in Ohio, I met a black poet called Herbert Woodward Martin who first published a sad love poem of mine in the Great Lakes Review. That was thirty years ago! These days I write about life on the land and the complexities of being a believing man in the twenty-first century.

Gail Robinson lives in the Perth Hills. She is a freelance writer, editor, visual artist and poet. Her visual arts blog is linked below. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in journals and anthologies and non-fiction articles in the media and corporate publications.

Tony Harding’s verse, mostly based on true events, will take you into the shadowy, mischievous and often humorous world of a young British Bobby in the 1960’s and beyond. There’s bush poetry and just plain nonsense too! These poems aim to let you relax, imagine and smile.