Poems of
Cynthia Rowe, AU in the January / February 2012
Sketchbook
Cynthia
Rowe, AU:
Photo Haiga: autumn morning; shoreline; beach ginko;
goldfields country
About
Cynthia Rowe, AU
Cynthia Rowe is
President: Australian Haiku Society, Editor: Haiku
Xpressions, Immediate Past President: Eastern Suburbs (Bondi
Writers) Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW. She has a
degree from the University of Melbourne and has taught
French and English. She has spent time in France and the
French Territories and was awarded a Diplôme Approfondi de
Langue Française by the French Ministry of Education. She is
a Writing Fellow of the Fellowship of Australian Writers
NSW.
Her poetry can be read in numerous literary journals in
Australia and overseas. Her haiku have won a number of
awards including the Polish International Haiku Competition
2011. She is a member of the Red Dragonflies haiku group and
Bowerbird tanka group. Her poetry collection Driftwood
was recently published by Ginninderra Press.
Her short stories have appeared in national magazines and
been broadcast on National Community Radio. Her play ‘Not
the Vice-Chancellor’ was performed in the Sydney Short and
Sweet Festival 2008.
Cynthia has published four Young Adult novels: Our
Hollow Sofa (2004), Ants in My Dreadlocks
(2005) [runner-up Society of Women Writers NSW 2007
Biennial Book Awards], Stinger in a Sugar Jar
(2007) and Bad Grass (2009) [Second Prize
Junior Fiction Society of Women Writers NSW 2011 Biennial
Book Awards], with a fifth YA novel My French Barrette to be
published in 2012. She has written one general fiction
novel, Couscous Threads (2008) [Highly
Commended Society of Women Writers NSW 2009 Biennial Book
Awards.]
Website:
www.cynthiarowe.com.au
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/cynthia_rowe
This is
Cynthia Rowe's first appearance in Sketchbook.
