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Aside from his 9-to-5 writing, Rick Hodges has produced fictional works, including short stories and a stage play. He wrote his play, Three Generations of Imbeciles, based on a 1927 court case from his home state of Virginia that cleared the way for involuntary sterilisation of people with disabilities for decades before the practice was outlawed.

Sue Williams is one of the editors of The Regenerative Spirit Volume 2: (Un)settling, (dis)locations, (post-)colonial, (re)presentations - Australian post-colonial reflections.

Katie Stedman completed a degree in Medical Science before she decided to pursue her life-long passion for reading and writing. She refers to herself as a professional bookworm, having worked as a bookseller, library technician, and editor, including for the Flinders University student magazine, Empire Times. She can be found writing, surrounded by a growing collection of well-loved books.

Katia Rawlings is a published writer and editor, and her works can be seen in the 2023 edition of the Empire Times magazine. Katia enjoys writing mostly fantasy but is more than happy to dabble in other genres of fiction and non-fiction alike.

Amber Marin grew up on the Murray River with her four siblings, ever-inventing games and stories to stave off the boredom. A real, fire-breathing dragon has always been high on her birthday wish-list, but while she waits for one, she contents herself with an infinite amount of iced coffee and cinnamon donuts.

Kate Mandalov has been writing stories since she was five, starting with whacky nonsense tales. She won the State Theatre Company's Young Gun's Playwrights Award in 2005 and was once nominated for the Jill Blewett Playwright's Award. She hopes to find further success in historical prose following her studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.

Bernard O'Neil, a consulting historian, is a member of the Professional Historians Association (South Australia) and a Visiting Research Fellow in History at the University of Adelaide. He was a foundation committee member of the Australasian Mining History Association, the Friends of South Australia's Archives and the History Council of South Australia. In 1990 he was a founding member of the Society of Editors, SA (now a branch of IPEd, the Institute of Professional Editors).

Dr Sandra Kearney completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) studies in History at Flinders University in 2022. She was the managing editor of the revised edition of The Wakefield Company to South Australian History, and from 2018 to 2020 was secretary of the History Council of South Australia.

Colin Ball became radicalised to the Left in the 1970s as a student at Flinders University. He became an avid organic gardener, among other endeavours pioneering the Hindmarsh City Farm in the mid-1980s. He has always enjoyed a hankering to tell and write stories. Along with his appreciation for the stories that photographs and maps reveal, this hankering led him to revive Karen Joyce's Hindmarsh Pughole 'Recollections' interviews in this illustrated book.

Karen Joyce's interest in world politics was triggered when as a twelve-year-old she saw a documentary on the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She became involved in Vietnam War demonstrations, and organisations such as Greenpeace and the Australian Conservation Foundation. While working days in the Commonwealth Public Service, she decided to contribute to the working-class history of the Hindmarsh township by interviewing long-term residents.

Jan Andrews grew up in Melbourne and studied there and in Boston. Teaching was followed by a career in public policy and administration. A lifelong engagement with language and poetry accompanied these travels.

Jess Taylor is an early-career artist who lives and works on Kaurna land. Taylor's work explores her fascination with fictional horror through primarily digital methods of making, with a focus on concepts of the monstrous, voyeurism, and depictions of female brutality, sadism, and masochism. Taylor sees horror as a genre that interrogates and reveals our darkest cultural norms, and whose women offer powerful tales of suffering, empowerment and retribution.

Hannah Kent's first novel, the multi-award-winning international bestseller Burial Rites, was translated into over thirty languages and is being adapted for film. Her second novel, The Good People was translated into ten languages, nominated for numerous awards and is also being adapted for film. Devotion, her third novel, published in 2021, won Booktopia's Favourite Australian Book, and was shortlisted for multiple industry awards.

Suzanne Close is an arts educator and curator. Recent curatorial projects include Unravelling Encounters in 2023, and Counting Days with Frank Grauso at the Barossa Regional Gallery (South Australia) and The Adelaide Festival Centre in 2022-2023. Suzanne was the 2022 Adelaide City Library Emerging Curator and in 2021 she curated Adelaide X, which examined local collaborative practices. She was the 2020 recipient of the AHCAN & Floating Goose Early Career Curator program and the 2020 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) winner of the City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award.