Rhizomic Poetry reading and open Mic July presents: Tricia Dearborn and Laura Shore.

Tricia Dearborn’s poetry has been widely published in literary journals and has featured in anthologies including Australian Poetry Since 1788, The Best Australian Poems 2012 and 2010 and Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets. Tricia has degrees in biochemistry and arts, worked briefly in a research laboratory and now earns a living as a freelance editor. Her most recent collection of poetry is The Ringing World, published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2012.

President of Dangerously Poetic Press, Laura Jan Shore has facilitated their Byron Bay reading series since 2000. Laura’s poetry has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies on four continents including Black Ink's, Best Australian Poems 2013.  Her collection, Breathworks, was launched at the Byron Bay Writers Festival in 2002.  She won the 2006 CJ Dennis “Open Poetry” Literary Award, 2009 FAW John Shaw Nielson Award, 2012 Martha Richardson Poetry Award and second prize in Melbourne Poet's Union 2013 Award.  Her latest book, Water over Stone, won IP Picks Best Poetry 2011, Interactive Press, Brisbane.