Judy Dally has published three collections of poetry, has been published in various magazines and newspapers and in the last 23 editions of the Friendly Street Reader. In 2011 she won the John Bray Roman Poetry Prize with Whoever Said of Shane Warne. Judy has a Master of Arts in Literature from Deakin University and has previously tutored in Australian Literature and Adolescent Fiction at the University of South Australia. She is currently a member of the Tutti Choir and a volunteer teaching literacy at Tutti Arts (young people with a disability studying art, music and drama).
Louise McKenna was born in the United Kingdom where she studied at the University of Nottingham and the University of Leeds, graduating with a Joint Honours degree in English and French. Louise was a finalist in the inaugural Cricket Poetry Award 2009. Her first collection of poetry, A Lesson in Being Mortal, was published in Friendly Street New Poets 15 by Wakefield Press in 2010. Her work has since appeared in Sorcerers and Soothsayers: Friendly Street Poets 35, The Independent Weekly, Poetrix and paper wasp. She has read some of her poetry on Radio Adelaide and recently won Poem of the Month in the monthly science poem competition held by the Royal Institute of Australia. Louise works part time as a Registered Nurse.