Katharine Pollock (PhD) is the author of Her Fidelity (Penguin Random House, 2022), and Starry Eyed (Wakefield Press, 2025). She writes funny stories about ordinary people leading complicated lives. She lives and works on unceded Eora land.

Bridget Jolly trained as a painter-printmaker. She studied and taught Western art and architectural history at Flinders and Adelaide universities and developed an eclectic interest in South Australian social history, particularly of Kangaroo Island. She tutors in English as Another Language to refugee women.

Yianni Cartledge is a history PhD graduate and Greek Studies lecturer at Flinders University, researching early Greek migrants to the Anglosphere. He was secretary of the HCSA from 2020 to 2023 and acknowledges his supervisors Prof. Andrekos Varnava and Dr Evan Smith, and his colleagues on the past and present HCSA committees.

Greg Lockwood majored in German and Greek at Adelaide University, then studied education at Melbourne University. He completed a ThD in New Testament and missiology at Concordia Seminary, St Louis (1983). Through the 1990s he was an associate professor at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana. From 2004 to 2011 he lectured at Australian Lutheran College, Adelaide.

Greg has presented and been published in the areas of biblical theology and missiology.

No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability is a South Australian professional theatre company that proudly works exclusively with disabled performers to produce world-class theatre. It was founded in 1994 by Helen Flinter-Leach who recognised that drama skills are life skills, and the transformative power of meaningful paid employment in the arts.

Julie Marcus is an anthropologist and writer. Her doctoral research investigated the relationship between Islam and women's lives in urban Turkey; later work focused on how race, gender and sexuality appeared in public discussions of social life in Australia.

Natalie Harkin is a Narungga creative arts-based Research Fellow with the Indigenous Studies team at Flinders University (Adelaide), Kaurna Yerta. She is passionate about archival justice, engaging archival-poetic methods to document community Memory Stories, and Indigenous Living-Legacy archive innovations for our time. Her books include Dirty Words (Cordite Books) and Archival-Poetics (Vagabond Press).

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), known mostly as (just) Dante, was an Italian poet and philosopher. He is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in poetry at a time when most was written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers. His depictions of hell, purgatory, and heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature.

Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School for Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade.

Enrico Mercuri is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney where he leads research, and co-supervises doctoral students.

Enrico's formation included having Dante's Inferno read to him by his mother in his early years. This was followed by formal education in which he was awarded the university medal in Italian and wrote an Honours dissertation on Dante.

As a university educator David Blaiklock has received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACAUDS) and a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching. David's design practice is internationally recognised.

Through his work as an artist, writer, curator and Vitamin zine creator, Shaw Hendry crossed paths with many in the South Australian arts community. During his fourteen years as a technical officer at the South Australian School of Art, he helped shape the work ethic of many artists at the beginning stages of their careers.

Dr Stephen Atkinson is Program Director for the Bachelor of Contemporary Art program at the University of South Australia.

Dr Grace Cochrane is a revered curator and art historian and arguably the most authoritative figure writing on Australian artists working in crafts-based media.

Farrin Foster is an editor, writer and journalist working from the stolen lands of the Kaurna people. She has been the founding editor of three print publications (two of which survived). Farrin's writing has appeared on platforms like the Guardian and Kill Your Darlings, as well as in audio projects and documentary film.