Tru S DowlingTru S. Dowling is a Bendigo mother, poet, performer, freelance writer and editor. She has taught Professional Writing & Editing at Victoria University, Bendigo Kangan Institute and privately for over 15 years. Pre-occupations include hospitality, volnteer counselor, and singer-songwriter for folk band The Wagtales. Her poems have been awarded, read or published in Australia, Ireland, the UK and USA, credited to Eureka Street, Famous Reporter, Poetry Monash, Blue Giraffe, Scintillae, Tamba, Offset, Skylight 47, Antipodes, Poetica Christi Press, Melbourne Poets' Union, FAW and Torriano's. Tru has appeared at various writers' festivals and exhibited her work alongside artists and musicians. Communal projects, social justice, nature, the dialogical and relational inspire her writing. Memoirs of a Consenting Victim (Mark Time Books, 2011) is Tru's first poetry collection; her latest manuscript is Canopy. Read More Read Less