PS Cottier, aka P.S. Cottier, aka Penelope Susan Cottier, is a poet and short story writer. She has worked as a lawyer, a university tutor, a union organiser and a tea lady. She wrote a PhD on animals in the works of Charles Dickens at the Australian National University.
Her first poetry collection, The Glass Violin, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2008, and they also published her first collection of short stories, called A Quiet Day. Her most recent book is The Cancellation of Clouds. That’s poetry.
Her poems have appeared in publications including extempore, Eureka Street, The Mozzie, Poetrix, The Canberra Times (all Oz) Hand Luggage Only (UK, an anthology of sonnets edited by Christopher Whitby), Gloom Cupboard (international), The Atlanta Review (US), Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue (US), Star*Line (US) and Contemporary Verse 2 (Canada). Reviewing is something she does, as is excessive commenting on other blogs.
She lives in the peaceful burg of Canberra, Australia, after growing up in Melbourne, and counted three different species of cockatoos on her walk from the cafe to home recently. So when she says Canberra is peaceful, she really means it….Until the cockatoos start screeching, that is.
And now I spend as much time living on the south coast of New South Wales as possible. Makes Canberra look busy.