Mary Talbot Cross is a pseudonym of Jennifer M.T. Carter. Jennifer M.T. Carter grew up in the United Kingdom and took an honours degree in French language, literature and civilization at Aberdeen University in Scotland. She is an independent researcher and writer, and the author of a number of non-fiction titles. Research for her historical novels (written as Mary Talbot Cross) has taken her to England, India and France. She lists among her interests gardening and the pursuit of the eccentric.

Troy-Anthony Baylis is a descendant of the Jawoyn people from the Northern Territory and also of Irish ancestry. He was born in 1976 and has been creating works of art since 1993. His multifaceted artistic practice is founded in the process of 'queering' and unsettling 'traditional' ways of representing Aboriginality.

Jennifer Humphries is a genealogist and family historian whose interest in the Boer War was originally sparked by reading the diary of Private Griffith Cadwallader Davies (1868-1913), her grandfather, who served in the Queensland militia before volunteering for the 1st South Australian Mounted Rifles and service in South Africa. She is secretary of South Australian Boer War Association.

Anthony Stimson has a PhD in History from Flinders University (Adelaide) and is president of the South Australian Boer War Association, a descendants' organisation. His interest in the Anglo-Boer War started with his grandfather, Captain A.E.M. Norton (1869-1922), who commanded a squadron of mounted infantry in the 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen and was awarded a DSO for the action fought at Leeuwkop near Lindley on 3 June 1900.

For over thirty years, Brenton Mauriello AM has lived at the intersection of diverse cultures and high-stakes industry. In Another Round, Brenton steps away from the corporate lens to share the personal philosophies that have guided him through the peaks and valleys of a life lived globally.

Tikari Rigney is a queer Kaurna, Narrunga, Ngarrindjeri multidisciplinary artist living and working on unceded Kaurna Country. Their storytelling practice traverses poetry, visual art and community-based arts projects and often centres around themes of belonging, identity, place and body.

Adele Sliuzas is an arts writer, curator and textile artist. Adele is Assistant Curator at JamFactory (South Australia), and also the Visual Arts Curator at The Mill. They have contributed to arts publications including Artlink, Fine Print, Runway, Art and Australia and Un.

Chris Burrell has had a successful career as a medical virologist and university academic in Edinburgh and Adelaide. He has also been active musically throughout his life as a pianist and accompanist, organist, choral conductor and singer.

Louise Nunn joined the Advertiser as a cadet journalist in the 1980s while living in Unley, before moving to Sydney to work in arts publicity. In the 1990s, she returned to the Advertiser as a writer and sub-editor on the Saturday magazine, and worked as arts editor from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Her arts reports appeared in the Advertiser for more than 30 years in news, reviews, features, editorials, columns and opinion pieces.

Tim Lloyd has lived in Unley most of his life. He took a degree in history at the University of Adelaide and joined Adelaide's Advertiser in 1974. For many years he wrote the newspaper's obituary pages and a weekly Heritage Matters column. He was arts editor for the paper from 1987 to 1995 and its theatre critic since 1977. In 2024 be became a member of the South Australian Heritage Council.

Professor Donald Markwell AM served as Head of St Mark's College, Adelaide, and as an Adjunct Professor of the University of Adelaide from 2019 to 2025. In December 2025, he became Head of King's College at the University of Queensland. Professor Markwell studied at the universities of Queensland and Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), and at Princeton. He taught politics and international relations in Oxford for a decade before becoming Warden of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne. He has since served as the global head of the Rhodes Scholarships as Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, and as senior advisor to the Australian Minister for Education and to the Attorney-General of Australia.

Growing up in a small country town, the daughter of a local doctor and shire councillor, Maggie Dawkins is fascinated by the social dynamics which exist in plain sight. Being sent to boarding school at 9 years of age, and having taught maximum security prisoners in Fremantle prison honed her observation and survival skills.

There are advantages to being an outsider in rural communities. When living in Katanning, Maggie had the privilege to choose where her allegiance lay, and it wasn't with the ruling class, who were more than happy to accept her into the fold, it was with former high school hostel residents who had been sexually abused as young boys. It was the beginning of a lifelong commitment to advocacy for the victims, survivors and their families. Maggie accepted the Blue Knot award in 2013, which recognised her service to adult survivors of child sexual abuse.

Having lived on a vineyard in the Barossa Valley in South Australia for 30 years, Maggie prefers to divide her time between Moonta Bay overlooking the Spencer Gulf and the equestrian community of Darling Downs on the southern outskirts of Perth, where she lives happily adjacent to her daughter Alice, in the company of horses and dogs.

She is married to former Federal Treasurer John Dawkins, who was a minister in the Hawke and Keating governments.

A history graduate of the then University of Adelaide, Graham Loughlin spent several years in education, initially as a secondary teacher and later as a lecturer at the then Murray Park College of Advanced Education. He then served as the first Research Officer appointed in the South Australian Parliamentary Library before accepting successive positions as speech writer with the NSW Leader of the Opposition and policy adviser with the SA Premier and Treasurer.

Richard Ryan began to practice as a chartered accountant in Darwin in 1971. With colleagues he built a significant accounting network with eight offices around Australia, three in the Northern Territory.

Following the Darwin cyclone he ultimately became Chief Executive of the fledgling Henry and Walker, the first industrial company in the Northern Territory to be listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and the first company in Australia to have an Indigenous Director. He chaired on two occasions the Menzies School of Health Research, which became Australia's leading institution in Indigenous Health Research. Other entities include Diamond Leisure Pty Ltd that operated casinos in Darwin and Alice Springs, and the Northern Territory Tourism Commission.

Jannali Jones is an award-winning Gunai (krowathungalong) novelist, playwright, and editor. Her debut novel, My Father's Shadow, was published by Magabala Books and won the Black&Write! Fellowship. She is the editor of Splinter's First Nations issue and was recently sub-editor for issue 5 of Momentum Magazine. Her work has been published in Australia and overseas, including both fiction and non-fiction, spanning across genres and forms. She completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing and a Graduate Certificate in Editing and Publishing at the University of Technology, Sydney.