Lyn Reeves
Titles
- Walking the Tideline
- Speaking with Ghosts
- Moorilla Mosaic: contemporary Tasmanian Writing (as editor)
- Beads (Picaro Press, 2007)
- Seasoned with Honey
- The Ink Brushed Distance
Biography
Lyn Reeves' poetry, haiku and stories have been widely published in journals and anthologies. She has collaborated with painters, print-makers, musicians, photographers, workers and scientists for various poetry events. Awards include grants from Arts Tasmania and twice from the Australia Council, a Varuna residency and a writer-in-residence award at St. Helens, Tasmania and another in Darwin. Lyn has been a featured reader at the Sydney Writers' Festival, at Word Storm (NT Writers' Week Festival), The Tasmanian Readers and Writers Festivals, The Tasmanian Poetry Festivals, Salamanca Writers' Festival, and at other venues in Tasmania and interstate. Lyn coordinated the Moorilla Cultural Series, from which the anthology Moorilla Mosaic: contemporary Tasmanian writing developed. She is the haiku editor for Famous Reporter, and has served as both Secretary and Vice President of HaikuOz. A collection of her haiku, Walking the Tideline, appeared in December 2001. Her poetry collection Speaking with Ghosts was published by Ginninderra Press in 2002. More recently, she has published two chapbooks, Beads (Picaro Press, 2007) and the ink brushed distance (Walleah Press, 2008). She is one of four poets whose work appears in the award-winning anthology Seasoned with Honey (Walleah Press, 2008).