Junice Direen (59 works by)
Born: Established: 1950 Auckland ;
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1984
Heritage: New Zealander
SAWomen amended: 05/12/2000
Comments: Wrote 25/1/99 asking for details of publications and more personal information. She doesn't want to give more biography (10/99) To be published in Scant Cafe Anthology, due out in November 7/08/00 Junice will ring back with details of latest publications: 'Coorong Dreaming' in Woorilla; 'It Feels like Writers' Week' in Delta; 'After the First Heavy Rains', 'Secret Skirmishes Beyond Katherine', 'Noarlunga Terminal' in Poetry 2000; ( Anthol Friends of Aldinga/Willunga Library ) 'Aldinga Scrub Reunion' in Studio; 'The World's Largest Suburb' in Southern Ocean Review (NZ).
Contact: Ms Junice Direen
Address: 13 Robertson Rd,
Moana
5169
Phone: 8386 0983
Contacted: 07/12/1998
Replied: 14/12/1998, 15/3/1999
Complete: 23/4/1999

BiographyHistory

Junice Direen was born in Auckland, New Zealand. She migrated to Adelaide, South Australia in 1984 and later became an Australian citizen.

Direen began writing in 1989. She has been a long-term member of Friendly Street Poets and, in 1999, was Deputy Chair of the Board of the SA Writers' Centre. She was also a founding member of the Fleurieu Writers.

Direen has taught creative writing for Onkaparinga TAFE and has been the City of Onkaparinga Council poet for a Crime, Community, Environment, Art and Design project.

Notes

  • Author writes in these languages: ENGLISH

Affiliation Notes

  • Born elsewhere; moved to SA