Maureen Sexton
| Name | Maureen Sexton |
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| Email Address | maureenjsexton@gmail.com |
| Profession | Poet/Haiku Writer/Writer/Editor/Digital Artist/Photographer |
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| Country | Australia |
| State | WA |
| Suburb | Midland |
| Website | http://www.maureensexton.com.au |
| Phone | 0435024616 |
| Biography | Maureen is a freelance writer, poet, haikuist, editor, photographer, website builder/designer, and digital media artist in Perth, Western Australia. She has vast writer-in-the-community experience and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing, which she completed at Edith Cowan University, with some of her studies undertaken at Murdoch University and Flinders University. She is available to run workshops, classes, participate in panel discussions, and read/perform her work publicly, including in libraries. She has run successful workshops and classes at City of Perth Library, the Fellowship of Australian Writers of WA and the Peter Cowan Writers Centre, and other venues. She completed an intense mentorship (writing, researching, critiquing and workshopping of haiku for publication) with mentor, John Bird in 2007, and is currently the HaikuOz WA Regional Representative. She finds haiku writing and its awe of nature, to be particularly meditative, healing and inspiring. She was a co-founder of: WA Poets Inc, the annual WA Spring Poetry Festival, The Word is Out Poetry Journal, Creatrix Poetry Journal, Creative Connections Art and Poetry exhibitions, Mari Warabiny Haiku Group and Walking on Water readings. Her poetry and haiku have been widely published internationally and nationally. She has also had success in national poetry competitions, and many of her short stories, articles and reviews have also been published. Maureen has been a regular guest reader at venues around Perth and Adelaide since 1995, and has organised many readings in WA. Maureen has also studied Photography, Web Design and Maintenance, and Secretarial Skills at TAFE in WA. She was a TAFE lecturer in Oral Communication at Challenger TAFE in Rockingham. Maureen was born and raised in Perth WA, and has two sons, Jeffrey and Robert, and a daughter, Kathy. |
| Publication History | Maureen's poetry and haiku have been widely published internationally and nationally. She has also had success in national poetry competitions, and many of her short stories, articles and reviews have also been published. For more information go to her website: www.maureensexton.com.au or www.myspace.com/maureensexton. |