INfusion 47 ebook - Summer 2012 - NMIT

INfusion 47 Summer Edition ‘12
S. L. Higgins
As she types this, Shevon Higgins is arguing with her insurance company. She
has smoked with Norman Reedus, Jonathan Frakes and Nicholas Brendon.
She’s drooled over Adam Baldwin with Sean Maher. On occasion she writes
stuff. Her latest literary adventure has been described as ‘Downton Abbey
meets Sherlock Holmes’.
Aaron Hughes
Editor-in-training. Aspiring writer. Former PA. Olympic Speed Typist. Weightloss
success story. Recovering Queenslander. Shower singer. Chocoholic. Neat
freak. Chatterer. Member: Tall Show-Tune-Queens of Australia (TSA). Motto:
‘Try everything except incest and folk-dancing.’
Norman Jensen
Norman was born to poor but honest parents in 1963 (he still remembers the
1st Moon Landing) in Geelong. He fled to Melbourne in 1984 and has habitually
associated with musicians, artists and poets. He considers himself a poet
and is a co-convenor of the Poetry Readings at the Dan O’Connell Hotel in
Carlton every Saturday.
Helen Krionas
Helen Krionas is a storyteller from Melbourne. She never learned how to
swim. When she grows up she wants to be Elaine Benes.
Maria Leopoldo
Maria has been doing a creative writing class for about four years and thought
it was about time that she experienced the highs and lows of submitting her
work to literary journals. This is her second poem to be published. She’s really
enjoying the highs.
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Bronwyn Lovell
Bronwyn Lovell is an emerging poet living in Melbourne. Her poetry has
been published in Antipodes, Cordite Poetry Review and the Global Poetry
Anthology. She was shortlisted for the 2011 Montreal International Poetry
Prize. www.bronwynlovell.com
Myron Lysenko
Myron Lysenko is a well-known Melbourne poet and former teacher of poetry
at NMIT.
Emma McVinish
Emma McVinish believes in love, red dresses, and the Power of Three. She also
thinks that the jerk who designed the Water Temple should be pushed down a
flight of stairs. In a tricky situation, she asks herself ‘W.W.N.D.D?’
Jessica Morris
Jessica is 5 ft 6 in, with blue eyes and a serious stance. A keen lover of life, she
enjoys taking deep breaths and putting pen to mouth. She also likes to drink
Manhattans and open mail. Jessica has thoroughly loved her year at NMIT.
Tom O’Connell
Tom O’Connell honours his lineage by averaging twelve cups of English
Breakfast tea a day. Incidentally, he often has trouble sleeping. His biggest
aspiration is to find work as a professional editor.
Bernard O’Connor
Bernard O’Connor began the year wanting to learn about writing and ended
up taking photos of imaginary places and thinks he should have done a photography
course instead.
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