Talie Helene

Talie Helene is a musician and writer, from Melbourne, Australia. She has poetry published in journals including Midnight Echo, Voiceworks, Avant, and Inkshed, and Mary Manning's About Poetry (Oxford University Press), and a co-authored short story (with Martin Livings) The Last Gig of Jimmy Rucker in More Scary Kisses (edited by Liz Grzyb). She has appeared on panels at Aussiecon 4, Dirty Words - a writers' flash festival, and Continuum 5 - Galaxies By Gaslight, and performed at the St Kilda Music and Poetry Festival. Talie is Horror Editor for the anthology The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror (Ticonderoga Publications), and was News Editor for the Australian Horror Writers' Association for four years (2006-2010), for which she received a Ditmar nomination. Talie is a member of the SuperNOVA writers' group, and is working on her first novel. As a journalist she has been on staff at the UK's bible of extreme music,

Zero Tolerance

magazine, for five years; her column Waltzing Macabre was a regular in Black: Australian Dark Culture magazine. Talie is currently preparing her AMusA in Classical Singing, is ambling through an Advanced Diploma in Music Performance (Jazz and Contemporary), and climbing the mountain that is classical Double Bass. She has a Cert IV in Music Industry (Technical Production), and a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing; her interdisciplinary interests lean strongly towards audio arts and film score composition. She has performed with many artists including The Tenth Stage, Wendy Rule, Sean Bowley, Saba Persian Orchestra, Maroondah Symphony, and Eden; she also performs solo. Talie event managed the weekly metal club event Hammerheart.

You can find out more about Talie's music and writing at www.taliehelene.com. She also keeps a Livejournal. She is taller online, than in real life.