Chloe - contributors

Diane Beckingham is a poet, artist and retired teacher. After a long affair with watercolour landscapes and acrylic abstracts, she now dabbles in mosaics and folk art. She enjoys doing line drawings for poetry magazines.

Delys Bird teaches Australian studies and women's studies in the Faculty of Arts, UWA, and is about to begin work in a major collaborative project that will develop a history of post-60's Australian literature, examining the ways contemporary bodies of theory have been part of such a history.

Roberta Buffi graduated from the University of Florence and is currently writing a PhD at the University of Western Australia on contemporary Australian women writers.

Pip Christmass is currently writing a PhD thesis at the University of Western Australia on erotic and experimental aspects of Anais Nin's journals and fiction. She has recently published in Outskirts' first edition, The Australian Women's Book Review, and Anais: An International Journal.

MTC Cronin is a writer who "works" at other things to survive. Her poems and short stories have won awards and have been published by journals, newspapers and anthologies in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Britain and Europe. Her first collection of poetry, Zoetrope - we see us moving, was published in 1995 by Five Islands Press. She is also a researcher in the field of feminist legal theory at the University of New South Wales.

Shasta Dawson majored in Fine Arts at the University of Oregon. She married, had children and moved to Australia in 1971. In 1991 she obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Western Australia. She lectures and tutors on a casual basis for the UWA Philosophy Department, does freelance paintings and illustrations and is starting off a business called Shasta Art.

Lucy Dougan is a postgraduate in the Department of English at the University of Western Australia. She has published poetry in various journals which include Fremantle Arts Review, Poetrix and Ulitarra. She currently works part-time in the Newcastle Community Arts Centre, NSW.

Enza Gandolfo is a Melbourne writer. She has had a number of short stories published in literary journals. Enza is currently working on a novel based on her grandmother's life - a woman whose voice journeying from the depths of her belly was always heeded

Evelyn Hartogh read literature and philosophy graduating in 1991 from the University of Queensland. From 1992 to 1996 Evelyn has performed at galleries, cabarets, nightclubs, dance parties and seminars. She uses iconography of women to displace and subvert limiting notions of femininity. Her book of performance pieces, Sold Out, was first released in September 1995 at the Brisbane Writers Fringe Festival.

Patricia Ethelwyn Howell is based at the University of Delaware. A freelance writer for 18 years, she has been published in 60 periodicals. Driven mad by an inner urge to communicate, she seeks to tell people what she feels, interprets and sees in the world she lives in. She is interested in ecology, the restructuring of society, and how myth and history affects what we think and do today. She has a BA in English.

Katrien Kolenberg is doing a PhD in Astronomy at the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium.

Luz Mar Gonzalez Arias is writing a PhD on contemporary re/writings of mythology by Irish women writers at the University of Oviedo, Spain.

Susan Penberthy is currently studying for a PhD in English Literature at the University of Western Australia. Her interest is in representations of work and idleness in various forms of literature in sixteenth century England. She is also an enthusiastic participant in St Barnabas Anglican Church and has a longstanding concern for the church's treatment of women.

Kerry Ridgeway has had about 40 poems published. She started writing at fourteen and had her first published at seventeen. She is a deferred communications student at Macquarie University and her aspirations include song writing, journalism, comedy poetry, performance poetry and is currently trying to get a book on post anorexia and an anthology of poems published.

Rachael Romano is writing a PhD at the University of Western Australia on ageism and the representation of age in Australian Drama. In between raising three children she has perfomed in a wide range of theatre productions.

Jenny Smith is currently writing her doctoral thesis, 'Replacing female voices: the twelfth century Iyric of the trobairitz' in the Department of History at the University of Western Australia. She is a founding member of the editorial collective of Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies.

Jane Southwell is in the throes of completing her doctoral thesis at the University of Western Australia on sexual politics and surrealism in the novels of Angela Carter. She teaches English and Women's Studies, a nexus of which has produced an enduring interest in women's health issues.

Patricia Thornber is doing a PhD at the University of Western Australia in contemporary British fiction and literary theory.

Jane Williams is a poet and writer living in Victoria.

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