Shey Marque lives and writes in the coastal town of Two Rocks, Western Australia, with her husband and two dogs. She holds a PhD in the medical sciences and worked as a hospital haematology scientist in Australia and New Zealand before moving to Dijon in France where she taught English while studying French language. In 2011 she completed a Master of Arts in writing and worked until 2013 as Coordinator and board member of The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in the Perth hills where she remains a member of the poetry community. Currently, she is Coordinator of Hospital Poets Australia, an initiative founded in 2010 by Anna Soter for The Ohio State University's Medicine and the Arts Program. An award-winning poet, she has twice won The Karen W Treanor Poetry Prize in addition to various places in other competitions. Her poetry is published in literary journals including Cordite Poetry Review, Westerly, Award Winning Australian Writing 2014, and 2015, Australian Love Poems 2013 and others. Aporiac is her first chapbook collection.
