Cordite Publishing Inc. is registered as a charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission ABN 60639190286, and is listed on the Australian Registry of Cultural Organisations. Its publications are the quarterly Cordite Poetry Review – an Australian and international journal of poetry, criticism and research – and series of print books. Where applicable, critical writing and reviews are developed to adhere to our Guide for Indigenous Editing and Writing.
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Kent MacCarter is Director of Cordite Publishing Inc and Publisher of Cordite Books. His publishing career began at University of Chicago Press in 2000. He is author of four poetry collections – In the Hungry Middle of Here, Sputnik’s Cousin and California Sweet and Fat Chance.
Alex Creece is a writer, editor, poet, collage artist and average kook living on Wadawurrung land. Alex is the Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review and an Online Editor at Archer Magazine, and her writing has been widely published. She has been awarded fellowships with Varuna, Writers Victoria, Arts Access Australia, The Wheeler Centre and Midsumma Pathways. Her work has been shortlisted for the Kat Muscat Fellowship, the Next Chapter Scheme, the Geelong Writers Prize, the Born Writers Award, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award. Alex is the author of Potty Mouth, Potty Mouth (Cordite Books, 2024), which was highly commended in the Five Islands Poetry Prize.
Elena Gomez lives on unceded Wurundjeri lands. She is the author of Body of Work and Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt, as well as several chapbooks and pamphlets. She previously worked as a book editor in trade publishing and has commissioned work as a guest editor for Liminal and Overland.
Dominic Guerrera is a Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Italian person who resides on Kaurna Yarta. Dominic’s artistic practice includes Poetry, Pottery and Photography. Currently works as a First Nations Producer for Regional Aboriginal artists, has guest produced and curated several writers festivals and art exhibitions and is currently undertaking a Masters in Gender Studies. In 2021, Guerrea was the recipient of the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize for his poem ‘unwelcome to country’.
Alice Whitmore is a writer, editor and literary translator living on Eastern Maar country. She is the translations editor at Cordite Poetry Review and an associate editor at Giramondo. Her translation work from Spanish and Italian includes novels by Mariana Dimópulos (Argentina), Guillermo Fadanelli (Mexico) and Jonathan Bazzi (Italy), and poetry collections by Xhevdet Bajraj (Kosovo/Mexico) and Yaxkin Melchy Ramos (Mexico/Peru). Her translation of Mariana Dimópulos’s Imminence was awarded the 2021 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Australian Book Review, The Sydney Review of Books, Overland, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and The Conversation, among others. She has coordinated and chaired a number of events at Melbourne’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, including 2019’s The Art of Translation panel and 2018’s Collaborative Translation and Poetry Workshop. She was a founding member of community arts organisation TransCollaborate: Collaborative Translation for Inclusion, and serves on the committee of the Australian Association for Literary Translation. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies from Monash University. Her translation of Mariana Dimópulos’s Imminence was awarded the 2021 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize.
Benjamin Laird is an Asian Australian software engineer, poet and PhD candidate in digital poetry at RMIT University. His print and electronic poetry have been published in various journals. His longer works include the digital chapbook The Durham Poems. He has twice been shortlisted for the QUT Digital Literature Award in the Queensland Literary Awards, in 2018 for ‘Core Values’, first read at the 2016 Melbourne Writers Festival as part of Australian Poetry’s Transforming My Country series, and in 2019 for ‘Psychometric Researches’, written for Red Room Poetry’s Poetry Object project. In 2020, as part of a response to the pandemic, he created Panacea, an interactive online collaborative poem for Red Room Poetry. He has taught digital writing at RMIT University, spoken at the Sydney and Melbourne Writers Festivals on the topic of digital poetry, edited two electronic poetry issues of Overland and co-edited a print issue of Australian Poetry Journal.
Autumn Royal creates drama, poetry, and criticism. Autumn is the founding editor of Liquid Architecture’s Disclaimer journal and, since 2016, has been the interviews editor at Cordite Poetry Review. Her poetry collections include She Woke and Rose, Liquidation, and The Drama Student, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Queensland Premier’s Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry.
Rory Green is a writer, editor and digital media artist living and working on unceded Gadigal land. Their interactive digital poetry has been presented at festivals including BLEED and Cementa, as well as published in Cordite Poetry Review, The Lifted Brow, Running Dog and Taper among others. They previously edited Voiceworks Online, a publication for experimental digital writing by young Australian writers, and facilitated Express Media’s online learning program Toolkits: Digital Storytelling. Their debut chapbook the attentions was published in 2022 through Slow Loris. Their current ongoing project is to write a poem for every Pokemon via the email newsletter Otherwise Pokedex.
Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, critic and editor based between Berlin and Naarm/Melbourne, on unceded Wurundjeri country. Her work has been published in Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, Overland, Sydney Review of Books and others. She has a PhD in English Literature and has been awarded a Marten Bequest and Peter Blazey Fellowship to work on a novel exploring identity, memory, myth- and history-making through the lens of the Bosnian war and its aftermath. Her debut poetry collection, after war, will be published in May 2026.
Erika M Carreon co-founded the independent journal Plural Online Prose Journal and published hybrid art and prose projects under Occult’s Razor together with Neobie Gonzalez. Her poems, short stories and translation work have appeared in High Chair, Kritika Kultura, TAYO Literary Magazine, Philippines Free Press, Katitikan, Anomaly Journal, Kalliope X and in Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines. She is currently taking her PhD in creative writing at the University of Melbourne with a special interest in eco-fiction.
Lou Garcia-Dolnik is a poet living and working on sovereign Gadigal-Wangal lands. Their poetry has appeared in journals including Overland, Meanjin, LIMINAL, Debris, Un Magazine, Runway Journal, Cordite and Australian Poetry Journal, and they have edited for journals including Runway, Cordite and Voiceworks. Lou’s work has been awarded Second Prize in Overland’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a place on the shortlist for the Blake Prize, Val Vallis Awards, LIMINAL Non-Fiction Prize, the Kat Muscat Fellowship, and an Academy of American Poets University Prize from the University of Texas at Austin. An alumnus of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s Emerging Writers Intensive, Lou was the 2023 recipient of the Australian Poetry/NAHR Eco-Poetry Fellowship and attended Tin House’s Summer Workshop in the poetry faculty.
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