Meet the Authors, Artists and Designers

Paul MonkPaul Monk

Paul Monk, poet and polymath, is a writer of considerable range and quality, interested in almost every aspect of the way the world works, from natural history to geopolitics and in the finest nuances of human intimacy. Over the past decade Paul has published well over 100 essays on public, international and historical affairs. He has not, generally, sought publication in academic journals but has looked for a wider readership of non-specialists.

Paul Monk has published a number of books in the past four years:

Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China (Scribe, 2005)

Sonnets to a Promiscuous Beauty: A Homage to the Western Canon (Barrallier Books, 2006)

The West in a Nutshell: Foundations, Fragilities, Futures (Barrallier Books, 2009) (eBook)

Paul is now writing Darkness Over Love, a literary work of extraordinary scope and ambition.

Chris BinksChris Binks

Chris has lived in Tasmania since 1948. He attended Launceston Church Grammar School and he later moved to Hobart to study at the University of Tasmania and become a teacher. Chris has spent a considerable time walking and climbing amongst Tasmania's mountains, valleys and coastal regions.

Chris has made a detailed study of Tasmania's history, especially its physical environment. This led him to write three books.

Explorers of Western Tasmania (1980 and 1989)

Pioneers of Tasmania's West Coast (1988) 

Hills of the West Wind (Barrallier Books, 2007)

Sandra LeeSandra Lee

Sandra Finger Lee was born in Fortitude Valley, Queensland and she has lived in Melbourne since the age of two. Sandra received a studentship to study at Coburg Teachers’ College and pursued further studies at Latrobe and Deakin Universities to broaden and diversify her 37 year teaching career. On retirement she pursued her love of literature and writing. She also immersed herself in art. She has been an intrepid traveler both at home and abroad.

Vietnam on Canvas is Sandra's first book and was published by Barrallier books in 2010.

 

Chris Johnson

Chris is a Walkley Award winning journalist of some two decades’ experience who has worked in a number of Australian states and reported from around the world. Chris started his writing career with a music/street press in Perth and went on to edit regional newspapers, run state political bureaus and cover federal politics from the Press Gallery in the nation’s capital. While Chris’s reporting is now focussed in the political realm he maintains an output of musician interviews and concert reviews. Chris is a very keen guitar player and collector. He plays regular café set gigs, private parlour concerts and regular band work – always performing for the love of music, guitars and the chance to further explore this fascinating instrument.

 Chris Johnson's book Shares Affair, Geraldton's Impact on the 2001 Race for Government was      published by Guardian Print in 2001.

     Guitar, the Australian Story was published by Barrallier Books in 2011 

 

Kristen Alexander

Kristen Alexander is a researcher and writer with a keen interest in Australia’s aviation history.
Her books Clive Caldwell, Air Ace (2006) and Jack Davenport, Beaufighter Leader (2009) were
published by Allen & Unwin. 
Kristen takes little time off from her writing projects but when she does, she loves reading, smooching up to Millie her cat, sipping leaf tea from fine china, pretending to think about riding her exercise bike, and watching soppy movies.