Rodney Williams is a writer from Victoria, Australia, who works across a range of genres. His prose fiction has appeared in magazines, as well as in his first book "Rural Dwellings - Gippsland and Beyond" (2008), produced in partnership with prize-winning painter Otto Boron. He has had longer poems included in major periodicals in Australia, New Zealand and the US. His work in haiku and tanka has been represented in key journals across 9 countries, as well as in representative anthologies internationally. Rodney's editorial work includes "Snipe Rising from a Marsh - Birds in Tanka" (2012) for the American website "Atlas Poetica". Working with linocut artist Helen Timbury, he has launched a second book "A bird-loving man: haiku and tanka" (2013) through Ginninderra Press. Publishing critical essays nationally, Rodney Williams gives live readings, while having prose and/or verse broadcast on radio, dramatised on stage, incorporated into an installation and featured in a choral recital.