For the past 10 years Annie has been producing events and directing festivals, including the past three Queensland Poetry Festivals (2015, 2016, 2017) alongside her life-love, David Stavanger.  This experience has led Annie to want to have a lie down with a good book and cup of tea. Where’s the beach?

Courtney Sina Meredith, the 2017 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence is a poet, playwright, fiction writer and musician. Her play Rushing Dolls (2010) won a number of awards and was published by Playmarket in 2012. She launched her first published book of poetry, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick (Beatnik), at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair, and has since published a short story collection, Tail of the Taniwha (2016) to critical acclaim. She has been selected for a number of international writers’ residencies including the prestigious Fall Residency at the University of Iowa and the Island Institute Residency in Sitka, Alaska. Meredith describes her writing as an ‘ongoing discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique’. She is of Samoan, Mangaian and Irish descent.