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Management committee
Emeritus Professor Tom Cochrane AM
President
Tom Cochrane AM was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service to library and information management, and to education through digital learning initiatives. He is currently an Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, working in the research field of Intellectual Property and Innovation, and the Deputy Chair of the Library Board of Queensland. Tom is also a Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association, Director at the Australian Digital Alliance and a former Queensland Museum Board Member.
Dr Kelli McGraw
Vice President
Dr Kelli McGraw is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at QUT. Currently teaching secondary English curriculum, her prior experience includes teaching high school English and debating in Southwest Sydney, NSW. Kelli researches the fields of secondary school curriculum, teacher identity, digital literacy and children’s literature, presently focusing on the use of project-based learning in secondary English. She is the Treasurer of the English Teachers Association of Queensland.
Gerard Healy
Treasurer
Gerard has been involved in the arts for many years. He performed in a number of plays for the Sunnybank Theatre Company and the Taylor Street Theatre Company. Gerard was Treasurer for the Victorian-based Arena Theatre Company and is currently the Treasurer for Clocked Out, a music ensemble dedicated to contemporary music. Gerard is also the Finance Manager for School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland.
Shastra Deo
Secretary
Shastra Deo is a writer, editor, and video game enthusiast. She is currently undertaking her PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Queensland, focused on nuclear semiotics, a poetry of warning, and linguistic pragmatics in video games. Her first book, The Agonist (UQP 2017), won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2018 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.
Dr Jane Frank
Director
Dr Jane Frank lectures in creative and professional writing in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. She is author of Regenerating Regional Culture: A Study of the International Book Town Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and is a published poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Wide River (Calanthe Press, 2020). Prior to employment in academia, she worked as an arts manager/ administrator, a State Government advisor and in project management roles in Australia and overseas.