2022 Goldstein Contest Judges

Kathy Kituai has published western poetry but specializes in Japanese poetry genres, tanka in particular, because of the allure to express the unsayable in as few words as possible. She has produced a four-part radio documentary for NBC, seven poetry collections, five anthologies, a children’s picture book, and received two Canberra Critic Awards for her teaching in Scotland, South Australia, New South Wales, and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) since 1990. She founded and facilitated Limestone Tanka Poets (2011–2021) and has also been a tanka editor for Cattails, creative editor for Muse magazine (twice), an assistant editor for the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, and her poetry has won international awards. Kathy also initiated and facilitated tanka poetry Labyrinth events in the ACT. Her latest tanka collection, Deep in the Valley of Tea Bowls, won the 2016 ACT Writing and Publishing Award.

David Terelinck’s tanka have appeared regularly in journals and anthologies. He has won an award or two and has published two collections of his own tanka and a collaborative collection with fellow Australian poet, Beverley George. David has coedited various anthologies, has been on the tanka selection panel for Gusts: Contemporary Tanka (Canada), and has been a past editor for Cattails, the journal of the United Haiku and Tanka Society (United States). David is currently making a return to free verse after an absence of some years and has won several awards and had many of his poems published in anthologies.