home salon writing writers university of adelaide contact Details of the readers who appeared at the wordfire salon on Tuesday 25th August 2009, appear below. Threasa Meads Threasa is a writer, painter, and textile artist who has produced various artworks, written and published several film reviews, short stories and poems, and has read at various events including The Brisbane Writers Festival. Her first memoir, Nobody, was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award 2008. She is currently a PhD Candidate and tutor in Creative Writing at Flinders University. Emma Carmody Emma is back in Australia after spending the last two years working on her PhD in France. Prior to commencing her doctoral project in creative writing and French at the University of Adelaide, she worked as an environmental lawyer in Sydney. She has also worked in a volunteer capacity with several NGOs that provide legal advice and support to asylum seekers. Her poetry, prose and translations have appeared in Australian and foreign journals, including the Australian Book Review, Mascara Literary Review and New Translations. Rosemary Jones Rosemary Jones currently lives in the U.S. In 2007 she won the Cezanne's Carrot winter solstice short story prize. Amongst others, her work has also appeared in U.S. journals such as Salt River Review, Sonora Review, Denver Quarterly and most recently in Australia in Sleepers Almanac No. 5. Chelsea Avard Chelsea is currently in the last stages of completing a PhD in the English Department at Adelaide University for which she has written a novel titled After and Before Now as well as other work exploring the relationship between literature and the visual arts. She is the co-editor of an anthology of creative writing, The Body, published by Wakefield Press, and her short stories and poetry has appeared in publications including On Edge (Wakefield), and The Sleepers Almanac: A Deathbed Challenge (Sleepers). Olive Senior Olive is a Jamaican now living in Toronto, Canada. Her book Summer Lightning won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Over the Roofs of the World was shortlisted for Canada's Governor-General's Award for poetry. Her other works include Arrival of the Snake-Woman, Discerner of Hearts (fiction) and Talking of Trees, Gardening in the Tropics, and Shell (poetry). She has also written several books on Caribbean culture including The Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage. Jill Jones Jill Jones won the 1993 Mary Gilmore Award for The Mask and the Jagged Star and the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize for Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems. Her most recent books are Broken/Open (Salt 2005) and a handwritten 'tiny' Speak Which (Meritage Press, 2007). Before coming to teach in Adelaide, she worked in a number of different fields over the years: legal publishing, journalism, government information, public policy and arts administration. Her most recent position was as Program Manager for the Literature Board of the Australia Council. She has collaborated with photographer Annette Willis on a number of projects. Her poems have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish. In 2007 she was a featured reader at the 23rd Festival International de la Poésie in Trois-Rivières, Canada. She keeps a regular blog at Ruby Street rubystreet.blogspot.com and a website at www.jilljones.com.au Adam Klimkiewicz Peach, 22, writes for OnDit magazine and does the whole uni thing. He is an easy-going, down-to-earth Fabio and enjoys hanging out with your mother-in-law. All enquiries at Lavalife. Annette Willis Annette is a fine art photographer who has exhibited annually since 2002. Areas of interest include portraiture, industrial heritage and photojournalism. In 2006 Annette won the Wollongong City Gallery Portraiture Prize. She has been a finalist in several international and Australian photographic awards including four times in both the Head On and Olive Cotton portraiture prizes. In 2009 a series of her images appeared in Small City Tales Of Strangeness and Beauty published by Wakefield Press. Annette often collaborates with the poet Jill Jones. The Romance of Death Paris, a collaboration between Annette and Jill with sound design by Solange Kershaw will screen in Projections at the 2009 Ballarat International Foto Biennale. Jared Thomas A Nukunu person of the Southern Flinders Ranges, Jared Thomas is a writer of theatre and fiction. He is currently a lecturer at the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research. From 2002 - 2006 he held the position of Arts SA Manager, Indigenous Arts and Culture. Jared's play 'Flash Red Ford' toured Uganda and Kenya in 1999 and his play 'Love, Land and Money' featured during the 2002 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Jared's novel 'Sweet Guy,' is short-listed for the 2009 South Australian Writers Festival People's Choice Award for Literature and the 2009 Deadly Award for Literature. Jared's novel 'Calypso Summers' is written under the mentorship of Jamaican writer Olive Senior as part of his PhD in Creative Writing at Adelaide University. Top