Bonny is a poet, lecturer, and President of Sydney PEN. Her writing has appeared in various journals including HEAT, Overland, Southerly and The Australian Literary Review, and in 2008 she undertook an Asialink/Malcolm Robertson Foundation literature fellowship in Japan. Her first collections of poems, Certain Fathoms (Puncher & Wattmann) and Said To Be Standing (Vagabond Press) will appear in summer 2009-10.