Helen Hagemann
lives in Perth, WA. Her books include 'The Shadow Goddess'
and soon to be released 'Like a River Drowning' (Indian Ocean Books).
Her work appears in magazines, literary athologies, Recursive Angel,
PixelPapers, Snakeskin, OzPoet, Poetry Downunder e-zines, and the Southern
Review. She was runner-up in a 1998 Perth PEN International Competition with
a poem called 'Permanent Aberrations' about Australia's notorious Christopher Skase.
She is included in the 2000 publication, 'An Endless Afternoon' (Lioness Publications)
.- an anthology celebrating birth and mothering. She is passionate about the
'other' in her work and primarily focuses on the female experience.

Helen graduated from ECU with a BA in Writing and works as a Coordinator on ECU's
Joondalup campus for the Peter Cowan Writers Centre, where she conducts a regular poetry workshop.
As a community arts administrator, she coordinated a Fringe Festival in November 2000
as part of the WA State Literature Centre's, 'Word of Mouth,' Writers and Readers Day
bringing such novelists as Nick Earls to the northern suburbs. Helen can be contacted on email:

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