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...

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...

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.

Gabriella Bisetto is a Senior Lecturer at UniSA Creative, University of South Australia, and a practising glass artist. Drawing on her abiding interest in the body as a source of conflicted narratives, Gabriella's work measures, translates and interprets the mechanisms, forms and ideologies of the human body and its connection to the world around us through blown glass, hot...

Melissa Raven is a research fellow with the Critical and Ethical Mental Health group at the University of Adelaide (Australia). She originally qualified as a clinical psychologist, and subsequently completed a masters in epidemiology and a PhD critically analysing claims and evidence about depression and antidepressants.

Stephen Orr was born in Adelaide in 1967, studied science and education and taught in a range of country and metropolitan schools. One of his early plays, Attempts to Draw Jesus, became his first novel, shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award. Since then he has published ten novels (most recently, Sincerely, Ethel Malley) and two...

Tim Reeves is an Adelaide-based historian and author. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class Honours at the University of Adelaide, with a thesis on the impact of Duncan's death on gay law reform in South Australia. He has since published widely on the topic including for the international Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History.

Margaret Ann Spence is the author of two novels, the award winning Lipstick on the Strawberry and the award finalist Joyous Lies. A graduate of Melbourne University, Margaret worked for Penguin Books (Australia) Ltd, and Walkabout magazine before moving to the United States to obtain a master's degree in journalism from Boston University. She...

Karen Wyld is an author of Martu descent living on the south coast of Adelaide, South Australia. Karen's books include Where the Fruit Falls (historical novel, University of WA Publishing) and Heroes Rebels and Innovators (children's nonfiction, Hachette). Karen is a South Australia Literary Fellowship 2024 recipient.

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Jude Adams has a decades-spanning career in the visual arts covering a range of practices. She is a former lecturer in Art History and Theory at the South Australian School of Art (University of South Australia) and worked in community arts initiating a range of projects, including the groundbreaking exhibition The Lovely Motherhood Show (1981).

Mark Street has worked as producer, director, and writer, on a variety of programs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Special Broadcasting Service (Australia) and others in cinema, television, and online.

Terry Cantwell has worked as a radio producer, a print journalist, a book author, and video editor. He has produced news content for Channel 7, Channel 9 and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and has worked as an editor in the publishing industry. Terry also works as a senior English and media teacher.

Bronwyn Watson has been writing about the visual arts for over 35 years as a feature writer, critic and columnist for newspapers and magazines such as the Sydney Morning Herald, the Weekend Australian, the Bulletin, the Art Gallery of New South Wales's LOOK magazine, Artlink, Art Monthly and Art & Australia....

Sally Heinrich was born and grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. Her paternal great-grandfather was amongst the German migrants who settled in Hahndorf during the mid 1800s.

Sally is a writer, illustrator and printmaker, who has published and exhibited widely in Australia and Asia. She has illustrated more than 40 books as well as writing and illustrating her own...

Wendy Sharpe is acclaimed as one of Australia's most significant and awarded artists. She has won the Archibald Prize, the Portia Geach Memorial Prize (twice) and the Sulman Prize (judged by Albert Tucker). She has received many major commissions which include Australian Official Artist to East Timor, the first woman to do so since World War II.

Dr Fidelma McCorry (nee Breen) completed a Master of Philosophy in history studying Irish nationalism and loyalism in colonial South Australia at the University of Adelaide in 2013. She has researched the development of the Loyal Orange Institution of South Australia. Fidelma is a human geographer whose PhD (2018) investigated Irish migration to Australia between 2000 and...

Rick Atkinson lives in Adelaide where he was born in 1943. He spent a great deal of his life teaching architecture and urban design until recently, when he cut loose to find more diverse ways of pursuing his interest in urban life. The latest of these has been an invitation from Jude and Louise to sketch his responses to some of the poems in WomanSpeak. Rick still...

Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien is a Kaurna Elder of the Adelaide Plains, Aboriginal Elder of the Year in 1997, Winner of the South Australian Local Hero award in 2003, and Honorary Fellow of the University of South Australia.

Professor Ian North is a full-time artist who is also a widely published writer on the visual arts. He employs photography and painting, sometimes combined, addressing considerations of place, identity and the post-conceptual. He has exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide (thirteen solo exhibitions), and in group exhibitions in London, Asia and the United States. His...

It's barely a ten-minute stroll from the University of Tasmania's School of Creative Arts and Media (CAM, UTAS) to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG). The two buildings are separated by just 350 metres, their distinctive exteriors forming an integral part of Hobart's waterfront.

For Mary Knights, it took several years to complete that short journey between...

Margie West AM has lived in the Northern Territory since taking up the position of Curator of Aboriginal Art and Material Culture at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) in 1978. Since 2005 she has been an Emeritus Curator with MAGNT and works as a private curatorial consultant. She was the founder of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait...

Christine Judith Nicholls is a writer, curator and Senior Lecturerin Australian Studies at Adelaide's Flinders University. From 1982 to 1992 she lived and worked at Lajamanu, a remote Aboriginal settlement in the Tanami Desert of the Northern Territory, first as a linguist and then as Principal of the local bilingual Warlpiri Lajamanu School. She has also worked at various...

Chips Mackinolty has lived and worked in the Northern Territory since 1981 as an arts advisor, writer, graphic artist and in arts, social, economic and health policy areas. This included work with Mimi Aboriginal Arts 1981-1985 and Maruku in 1985 as an arts advisor. This was followed by a stint with the Northern Land Council, then extensive work with the Jawoyn Association...

Barbara Ambjerg Pedersen moved with her family from Melbourne to Mataranka in the Northern Territory as a child. At 17 years old she begin nursing at the old Darwin Hospital when Matron Bullwinkle was in charge. In the years in between then and now she has travelled the world, had a family and finally came full circle back to the Territory. Since November 2001 she has worked...

Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrurla was an innovator - regarded by many as the most original Warlpiri artist to emerge from Lajamanu. She was among the enthusiastic group of men and women who first took up acrylic painting at the Lajamanu School in 1986. As her mastery of the medium developed, Napurrurla developed a highly personal style to illustrate her ancestral stories. At...

John Bede Cusack was born on 22 February 1908 in West Wyalong, a country town in New South Wales. John finished his education at Christian Brothers, Waverley, in the late 1920s. In 1933 John saw an advertisement for sales work at Electrolux. He got the job.

After training in Australia, being 'volunteered' as an Air Gunner and travelling to England, he started flying...

Nicholas Folland was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1967.

He is a sculptor and installation artist who reconfigures familiar household objects - such as soft furnishings, interior fixtures and whitegoods, found crystal and glassware - to create new and highly refined constructions. Folland has created numerous sculptures and installations referring to domestic...

Sally Foster, grandniece of Western Australian freestyle swimmer Evelyn de Lacy, swam at the 2012 London Olympics. For Australian swimming, the Games were mired in controversy. Sally recorded her experiences in journals that reveal the days and weeks before competition, the drama of swimming for your country at the highest level, and the changing times.

Judy Macpherson Kent studied Honours Arts at Flinders, became a teacher, moved to Melbourne and taught for a year before becoming involved in academic research when she lived in Darwin immediately after Cyclone Tracy. She now consults to organisations through Melbourne Business School, having attained her Masters and Doctorate in Organisation Dynamics in the past few years....

Andrew Collett AM studied Arts/Law at Adelaide University during the Vietnam War. Consequently he looked for something that combined the practice of law with political activism and established a practice in Aboriginal legal rights, which still keeps him off the streets.

Greg Johns' steel sculptures have a unique quality which reflects his uncompromising approach to making sculpture, from small to monumental scale, which is based firmly on his studio practice. His work has always communicated a love of forms, not only for their intrinsic aesthetic beauty but also their capacity to act as symbols for unifying systems which the artist believes...

Ron Blaber is the head of Department of Communication and Cultural Studies in the School of Media Culture and the Creative Arts at Curtin University. He has a teaching and research background in Postcolonial and Australian Literary Studies. His recent work examines the relationship between Popular Narrative and the Social across several media.

Anne Cramond Sutcliffe was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and emigrated with her family to Adelaide, Australia, in 1961. After attending Linden Park Primary School and Presbyterian Girls' College, she obtained a BSc and BPharm. Most of her work was in hospital pharmacies and she is now an editor in a small publishing company involved in providing information about drugs to...

Bryan Charlton was born on 8 October 1950 at Rose Park, the only child of Dawn and Leon Charlton.

He attended Linden Park Primary and Adelaide Technical High (now Glenunga High) schools. On leaving school he began a 40-year career as a press photographer, firstly with the Advertiser and later with the Age as the Adelaide bureau photographer with...

Graham F. Smith was born into a middle-class family in Port Lincoln, South Australia, in 1924. After serving in the Australian Army in 1942 he joined the Communist Party, remaining a critical supporter throughout his life. As a prominent and popular activist in community groups, political circles, trade union affairs, education reform, women's advancement and the peace...

Amanda Duthie, Scottish-born Australian, is one of the leading figures in Australia's arts and culture industries and was previously the CEO/Creative Director of the Adelaide Film Festival.

In September 2018 it was announced Duthie would commence in the role of Head of Production, Development, Attraction and Studios at the South Australian Film Corporation, at the...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.

With a background that included Yugoslav, Scottish and English heritage, Jude Aquilina grew up in Magill, South Australia. She matriculated at Norwood High School and has worked at various jobs, from Singing Telegrams to Telecom. She married Daniel Aquilina in 1987 and it was after the birth of their two children that she began writing poetry. Later she began to write short...

W.E.W. (Bill) Roediger is a clinical scientist who has researched ulcerative colitis and Crohn's Disease for forty years using mainly patient-derived observations.

Simone Ulalka Tur is Associate Professor in the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.

Tristan Kennedy is Associate Lecturer in the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.

Melanie Oppenheimer holds the Chair of History and is Dean of the School of History and International Relations at Flinders University in South Australia. Her research interests focus on women, war and volunteering in the twentieth century, and she has a special interest in soldier settlement and Red Cross history.

Margaret Anderson researches and writes on women's history, the history and demography of the family and on aspects of public history. She has held senior positions as a public historian in South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria, and is a Fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies.

Bartolomeo (Bob) Puglisi has been in the fishing industry 63 years. He started working as a crew member on a fish trawler at 12 years old in 1954, but even then had been fishing for years. He worked with his brothers in Ulladulla on the New South Wales coast, where many Puglisi families lived. The heads of these families were nearly all fishermen who had been brought out...

John Jessop developed an interest in grasses some 35 years ago. On joining the staff of the State Herbarium of South Australia in 1974 he took responsibility for the curation of the family and contributed much of the treatment of them for two editions of the Flora of South Australia, collaborating with Gilbert Dashorst on the second of those editions and on...

Gilbert R.M. Dashorst trained at the Adelaide School of Art (South Australia) and has been the scientific illustrator at the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium since 1983. He is responsible for illustrating plant material for scientific research publications in Australia and overseas, handbooks and guides, and education literature. He is widely known for the...

Even before Fiona M. James left school, she had become interested in botanical art and acquired some experience by working for a short while with Gilbert Dashorst on illustrating a handbook called Citrus for Everyone for the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide (South Australia). She has undertaken courses at the Adelaide Central School of Art, but interrupted her studies at...

Thistle Anderson (Mrs Herbert Fisher) was a lady of character, style and note. She rates detailed mention in E. Morris Miller's bibliography Australian Literature, and nearly two pages in Paul Depasquale's admirable Critical Study of South Australian Literature. Leonard Henslowe's 'A Chat with Thistle Anderson' published in Henslowe's Annual for...

Born in Semaphore in 1892, Ross Smith was educated at Queen's School in North Adelaide, and for a couple of years at Warriston School in his parents' native Scotland. He spent a good part of his early life on a massive property in South Australia's north-east, near the rail line connecting Port Pirie with Broken Hill.

In October 1916 Ross Smith took the life-changing...

Emily Caroline Creaghe (1860-1944), explorer, was born on 1 November 1860 in a ship in the Bay of Bengal, India, daughter of Captain George Cayley Robinson, Royal Artillery officer, and his wife Mary Harriet. Following Caroline's birth, Robinson took his family to England. They migrated to Australia in 1876. She married Irish-born Harry Alington Creaghe, a station-manager,...

Raised on a property near Minlaton on the Yorke Peninsula, Les Parsons embarked on a lifelong career at sea when he joined the Royal Australian Navy. As a captain of numerous patrol boats, for various government departments, he has and currently works throughout the waters of Australia.

Terina Armenakis was born and raised in Ethiopia. Serving for many years as the Honorary Consul General of Ethiopia in Greece, she has worked tirelessly to assist in the development of Ethiopia and to promote the country in Greece. Terina acquired her degree in economics and qualified as a certified stockbroker in New York. Having worked as an investment banker in both the...

Geraldine Halls was born Geraldine Mary Jay in 1919 in Adelaide, where she died in 1996. She spent decades travelling, living and writing in England, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific, and worked as an oriental art dealer. She received international acclaim early, when her thriller Beat Not the Bones, published under the name Charlotte Jay, won the...

Francis James Gillen was born somewhere in the vicinity of Cavan, near Adelaide, in South Australia. His birth was registered in the Little Para Post Office on 28 October 1855. His parents, Thomas and Brigid (nee McCann) Gillen, were married in County Cavan, Ireland, on 13 January 1855. They set sail from Plymouth in Cornwall on 28 March 1855, on the sailing ship...

Dr Robert Spencer Gillen is the grandson of F.J. Gillen.

Kieran John Modra AM (27 March 1972 - 13 November 2019) was an Australian Paralympic swimmer and tandem cyclist. He won five gold and five bronze medals at eight Paralympic Games from 1988 to 2016, along with two silver medals at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Modra was born in the South Australian town of Port Lincoln on 27 March 1972 as the third of four...

Nicholas Newland AM was born in Adelaide in 1948 and is a fifth generation South Australian. His interest in the five sons of Simpson was ignited by his wanting to find out more about his grandfather, the youngest of the sons of Simpson and Jane Newland. His research uncovered more than he expected. Ironically he found out relatively little about his grandfather but a great...

Jane Kartanya Simpson, a non-Aboriginal woman, studied Linguistics at the Australian National University in 1975-76 where she undertook a major assignment on the Kaurna language, tracking down old sources. She has taken a keen interest in Kaurna and other closely related Thura-Yura languages ever since. In 1991 she made the handwritten Teichelmann (1857) Kaurna wordlist...

Peter Barnes is a specialist architectural photographer. He was made a Master of Photography by the Australian Institute of Professional Photography in 2015. Previously Peter was a nurse, union official and IT project manager whose dream of becoming a famous photo-journalist was perpetually on hold. Firsthand experience of Europe's great old and brilliant new buildings...

John Nowland has more than 40 years' experience in the design industry. His work includes visual identities, books and other publications, packaging, way-finding and interpretive sign systems. Selected projects and articles have been published in design journals in Switzerland, Germany, Japan and the US. John is a past national president of the Australian Graphic Design...

Paul Monaghan is the Manager of the Mobile Language Team at the University of Adelaide, a ten-year project that seeks to document, revive and maintain the 44 languages of South Australia.

Michael Walsh has conducted fieldwork since 1972 in the Top End of the Northern Territory, mainly in the Darwin-Daly region. Since 1979 his work has been a mixture of academic endeavours and consultancies, mainly relating to Aboriginal land issues. From 1999 he has participated in the revitalisation of Aboriginal languages in New South Wales. From 1982 until 2005 he was part...

Julie D. Finlayson is a social anthropologist driven by a passionate belief in, and history of applied work in Indigenous Australia. This has led to work in native title, community development, Indigenous cultural tourism and adventures as a DJ for an Indigenous community radio station. She has also worked in various Indigenous program areas in the Australian Public Service....

Frances Morphy is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University. In her working life she has moved between academia and publishing, having been a commissioning editor at Oxford University Press, Oxford in the 1970s and 1980s. Her academic background is in anthropology and linguistics, and she was...

Lorraine Penny McLoughlin grew up on a farm in the South East of South Australia, an experience which shaped her interests and approaches to life. She began her working life as a teacher, both in Australia and overseas, before moving to a variety of public administration and political positions in Adelaide, mainly in education, the arts and economic development, often...

Anne Chittleborough, a librarian by profession, is based at Flinders University, South Australia, and works for a national database of Australian literature, Austlit: Australian Literature Gateway.

Brenda Glover completed a doctorate in English on Postcolonial Women's Writing at Flinders University. As part of her thesis she wrote a novel, Buttoned Up, which foregrounds the experience of five Australian settler women, a maternal line, across the last century. She tutors in literature, professional and creative writing and has been involved in a range of...

Margaret Forte was born in England, but lived in New Zealand from the age of seven. Her education included three years at a Quaker school. She began her career as a journalist at the Dominion in Wellington, and over the next fourteen years she worked for the Sydney Daily Telegraph, the Vancouver News-Herald and the Adelaide...

Harry Gallagher launched the careers of Jon Henricks, Dawn Fraser and many other swimming legends, and helped bring Australia an avalanche of Olympic gold.

Memories of a Fox tells of the struggle that took Harry from Tempe tip to triumph at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics; and of the secret love of a remarkable woman that sustained him through those years.

Phil Bagust has a long association with Trees For Life (SA) as a plant grower, seed collector and bushland regenerator. An avid bushwalker and botanical photographer with an interest in grassy woodlands, Phil has postgraduate awards in Surveying and Urban Planning, a Master of Arts in Communications, and currently lectures at the University of South Australia.

Lynda Tout-Smith's work with indigenous plants began in Melbourne in the early 80s with what is now the Victorian Indigenous Nurseries Cooperative. A keen gardener and conservationist, Lynda has a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Botany. She currently works in biodiversity conservation with Playford Council.

Troy Hunter is an adult and YA fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in a variety of publications and journals. He lives in Melbourne and works as a marketing and communications consultant. Gus and the Missing Boy is Troy's first novel.

Sonja Dechian is a writer and researcher with ABC TV in Adelaide. She has a Masters in Creative Writing as well as a graduate diploma in science communication. She has been published in a range of magazines and journals. Sonja's unpublished manuscript was highly commended in the 2002 Adelaide Festival Awards for literature.

Heather Millar is a freelance writer and editor who has worked on a range of magazines and books in Australia and England.

Catherine Helen Spence (31 October 1825 - 3 April 1910) was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician, leading suffragist, and Georgist. Spence was also a minister of religion and social worker, and supporter of electoral proportional representation. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing (unsuccessfully) for...

Sir Hans Heysen OBE (8 October 1877 - 2 July 1968) was an Australian artist. He became a household name for his watercolours of monumental Australian gum trees. One of Australia's best known landscape painters, he is remembered for his depictions of sheep and cattle among massive gum trees against a background of atmospheric effects of light, of men and animals toiling in...

Jenni Devereaux is a researcher and writer with the Australian Education Union. She is active in Australians Against Racism projects and in campaigns for human and labour rights.

Joan Tallis has extensive experience in genealogical and historical research work and enjoys a challenge. With respect to The Silent Showman Joan and her husband, Michael, 'started with nothing and came from nowhere' as Melbourne Punch might have put it. Gradually, as the story unfolded, they became fascinated by the JC Williamson Firm.

Alan Brissenden has been commenting on Australian and international dance since 1950. He currently reviews and writes for the Australian, Dance Australia, the Adelaide Review and Radio Adelaide and edits Brolga, the scholarly journal of the Australian Dance Council (Ausdance). His publications include Shakespeare and the Dance and...

Keith Glennon served in the Australian Imperial Force before training in classical and modern dance and then working as a theatre technician with J.C. Williamson. To research Australia Dances: Creating Australian dance 1945-1965 he traversed all states, interviewing hundreds of people while gathering material. In 1973 he became the founding administrator of...

Judy Valon is a writer and researcher. She was born in Wales, United Kingdom, and now lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Judy and Roger Roberts have created a series of stylish, fun and covetable gift books for the global market.

Roger Roberts is a renowned artist and designer whose illustrations featured in the hugely successful Toddler Taming books. He was born in Wales, United Kingdom, and now lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Roger and Judy Valon have created a series of stylish, fun and covetable gift books for the global market.

Joel Magarey has been an ice salesman, juggler, translator and journalist. He has travelled in remote regions across the world, and his travel stories, short fiction and poetry have appeared in Australian and American literary magazines. Born in 1969 in Adelaide, he lives in Melbourne, where he works as a writer and as a reporter with the Victorian parliament....

Originally from Germany, Ute Wegmann has worked as a freelance photographer throughout Australia for over 18 years, capturing the unpredictability of animals with her artful, often quite humorous images. Her work has been featured in Black & White magazine and in Burke's Backyard magazine. She was also assigned by Dog's Life Magazine to...

Dr Anthony Helman is a medical doctor who specialises in nutrition and medical education. He is the editor of the Arbor Clinical Nutrition Updates, the world's most widely read electronic nutrition journal. As a life long animal lover, he has been happy to turn his pen from nutrition to wildlife rescue.

Gillian Britton's short stories have most recently been published in Meanjin, Island and Wet Ink. She is currently working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.

Peggy Holroyde was born in England in 1924, but has become a global citizen spending four years in the USA at Radcliffe College Harvard 1941-1945 with a degree in English Literature and Fine Arts. There she found her mentor, H.N. Spalding who created the Spalding Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University in 1936. She studied Hindu and Buddhist faiths under...

John Barlow was born in England in 1967. He studied English literature at the University of Cambridge and has a PhD in applied linguistics from the University of Hull. After teaching in various universities he moved to Spain, where he now lives with his wife and son. A former recipient of The Paris Review's Plimpton (Discovery) Prize, he is the author of the novella...

Barbara Comber is a key researcher in the Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures in the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia. Her particular interests include literacy education and social justice, teachers' work and identities, place and space, and practitioner inquiry. She has worked collaboratively with teachers in high...

The grand stone colonial buildings of North Adelaide were the earliest influence on Robert Dickson's architectural eye. His first design brief in the era of building restrictions post World War 2 was to design and build himself a house using only the quantity of materials then available. Meant as a first house, he is still living in it six decades later, a testament to the...

Anna Kenny is an anthropologist based in Alice Springs, Central Australia. She has conducted field research with Indigenous people in the region since 1991 involving media, land and native title claims, and mining. She has been working on her PhD on Carl Strehlow's ethnographic work Die Aranda - und Loritja-Stamme in Zentral-Australien. Anna Kenny is interested in...

Sir Douglas Mawson OBE, FRS, FAA, (5 May 1882 - 14 October 1958) was a British-born Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes (born 7 March 1944), is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records.

Fiennes served in the British Army for eight years, including a period on counter-insurgency service while attached to the Army of the Sultanate of Oman. He later undertook numerous expeditions and was the first person to visit both the North Pole and...

Amber Turk was a keen writer. After being diagnosed with a brain tumour she kept a journal during the year before she died.

Margaret Brown is a social scientist who has researched ethical issues associated with dying and end-of-life decision-making. She has published widely in this area, and her work has contributed to changes in government policy and legislation. Margaret is a Research Fellow with the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia.

Frederick (Fred) Oscar Stephens AM, MD, MS, FRCS (Ed), FACS, FRACS; Emeritus Professor of Surgery, The University of Sydney; Emeritus Professor of Surgical Oncology, Sydney Hospital and The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.

Alan F. Atkinson is a freelance author and editor based in Adelaide. A former journalist, he worked extensively in print media in Australia and overseas before joining the Australian Broadcast Corporation. He won several awards for his investigative work and was named South Australian Journalist of the Year in 2004. He won a Walkley commendation his eyewitness account of the...

Cheong Liew, declared one of the world's ten hottest chefs at the height of his restaurant fame in the 1990s, is a pioneer of East Meets West fusion cuisine. His extraordinary ideas and creativity have made a profound mark on Australia's food culture.

Duncan McKellar is a psychiatrist who specialises in the care of older people. In 2017 he was a co-author of Australia's landmark Oakden Report, which triggered the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Most recently he lived in Edinburgh (UK), exploring his Scottish heritage, before returning home to Australia in 2024. He is the co-creator of...

Raised and educated in Adelaide, South Australia, John Davis taught History, Australian Studies and Theory of Knowledge at Pembroke School, Kensington Park, and is a life member and a former trustee. He is the author of Principles and Pragmatism, a history of Pembroke School and its antecedents - Girton Girls' School and King's College. In retirement, he volunteered...

Bianca Richardson is a graphic designer and illustrator with a love for wonky hand-drawn lines. She is the illustrator of Banjo Frog's Concert Spectacular, the first book in the Easter Bilby’s Friends series. Bianca lives in the beautiful Limestone Coast region of South Australia with her husband and their two little legends.

Dr Susan Arthure has a PhD in archaeology from Flinders University. Her main research interests are Irishness and the Irish diaspora, with a focus on the Irish Australian experience and the material lives of those Irish who migrated across the globe after the Great Famine. Her research into the Irish community of Baker's Flat, near Kapunda in South Australia, identified the...

Dr Stephanie James holds an adjunct position within the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. Following years of History teaching at secondary and tertiary level, in 2005 she embarked on a Masters which focused on colonial South Australia's largest minority group - the Irish. From 2010 to 2013, her PhD examined...

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick is a Professor of History and Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.

Dominic Guerrera (Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri) is a poet, curator and ceramicist. His writings have been published in Artlink and Cordite Review. Guerrera was the recipient of the 2021 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize. He is a co-editor of The Rocks Remain anthology (Wakefield Press, 2024) and the First Nations Literary Editor at...

John Waugh is a historian of Australian law and legal education. He is an honorary fellow in the law school at the University of Melbourne.

Peter Duncan was the Attorney-General in Don Dunstan's reforming Labor Government in South Australia in the 1970s and a minister and parliamentary secretary in both the Hawke and Keating governments. He initiated many pieces of social reform legislation, including the abolition of capital punishment, the recognition of de facto couples, making rape in marriage a crime (the...

Miroslav Micanovic was born in Brcko, lived in Gunja and graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. His texts have been published in various anthologies, collections and reviews and have been translated into other languages. With B. Cegec, he compiled a review of Croatian poetry during the eighties and nineties 'Strast razlike, tamni...

Marie Falcinella is a writer and visual arts professional living and working on Peramangk and Kaurna Country, South Australia. Her career experience includes commercial fine art galleries in Adelaide and Melbourne as well as working with Aboriginal owned and governed art centres across Arnhem Land, Top End and the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands to deliver...

Marijana Tadic is an Australian artist. She was born in Bosnia and migrated to Australia in 1969. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from the University of South Australia and a Diploma in Education from Flinders University (Adelaide). In 1983, Tadic was awarded a General Builders and Supervisor Licence by the South Australian Licensing Board associations. Marijana...

Elizabeth Fortescue entered the wondrous world of journalism in 1978, running errands for subs and editors at News Corp's Sydney headquarters in Surry Hills. Gaining a cadetship in 1979, Fortescue visited jails, fashion houses, courtrooms, parliaments and countless numbers of homes and business places while on assignment to cover the daily life of Sydney in all its various...

John McDonald is art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald and film critic for the Australian Financial Review. A former Head of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), he is the author of The Art of Australia: Exploration to federation (2006), among other publications. John writes for magazines and journals both at home and...

Justin Paton is a writer and curator from Aotearoa, New Zealand, and has been Head Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, since 2014. He is the curator of exhibitions such as Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter and Adrian Villar Rojas: The End of Imagination (both with Lisa Catt). Justin's many publications include...

Anne Ryan is Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where she has responsibility for the collection of Australian prints, drawings and watercolours. She studied at the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, and was the Sarah and William Holmes Scholar in the Departments of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in 2001-02.

Anne has...

Scott Bevan is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. Scott is the author of six books, including Battle Lines: Australian artists at war (Random House Australia, 2004), Bill: The life of William Dobell (Simon and Schuster, 2014), and The Lake (No Shush Press, 2020). He has presented and directed a number of documentaries, including...

Stephanie Wood is an award-winning writer whose work appears in publications including Good Weekend magazine (the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald), the Guardian and Vogue magazine. She is the author of Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies. Stephanie has...

Dr Fidelma McCorry (nee Breen) completed a Master of Philosophy in history studying Irish nationalism and loyalism in colonial South Australia at the University of Adelaide in 2013. She has researched the development of the Loyal Orange Institution of South Australia. Fidelma is a human geographer whose PhD (2018) investigated Irish migration to Australia between 2000 and...

D. (Douglas) Darian Smith (1900-1984) was a South Australian who returned from World War I to become a pioneering aviator and aerial photographer. His first photographs were captured as a passenger of the great aviator (Sir) Ross Smith in his Vickers Vimy; he went on to document South Australia from the air into his mid-seventies.

Barbara Hanrahan lived between Adelaide, London and Melbourne, and was one of Australia's most distinctive artists. Characterised by playfully complex narratives that draw on both personal experience and fantasy, her works are fearlessly direct and unashamedly decorative.

Annette Stewart has lectured in English and Australian Literature at the universities of New England, New South Wales, Sydney, Western Sydney, Macquarie and, most recently, Anhui University, in China. She also teaches English as a Second Language at Macquarie University. Annette has published a large number of articles.

Kathy Parslow was a contributor for South Australia From Above.

Denis Parslow worked as an aerial photographer for the South Australian Department of Lands (now the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources) from the 1970s until 2003, when the Aerial Survey Unit was outsourced. He then worked as a freelance aerial photographer for several different private companies. ...

Sharon Mascall-Dare is a journalist, broadcaster and writer based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a special interest in journalism ethics, ethnographic journalism and media coverage of Anzac Day. Born in the UK, in 1970, she studied Modern Languages at Oxford University before gaining a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism from City University, London. She joined...

Ronald Millar contributed three essays for No Singing in Gum Trees.

Marcello Costa is a Neuroscientist retired in 2022 as Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor after 47 years of teaching and research at the School of Medicine of Flinders University in South Australia.

He published his first paper in Neuro-gastroenterology in 1965 while still a medical student at the University of Turin, Italy. He pioneered many methods to...

Dr Baden Teague was born and educated in South Australia, graduating with a BA, BSc (Adelaide) and PhD (Cambridge). He was elected a Liberal Senator for South Australia, serving in seven Australian Parliaments, 1978-1996. He has been a member of the State Council of the Liberal Party for fifty years, 1973-2023, and is currently a writer and farmer at Inman Valley, a Crows...

South Australia's first female presenter of ABC television’s This Day Tonight, Paula Nagel made her small-screen debut in 1967 and worked for the national broadcaster for 21 years before moving into the boardroom and marketing, sponsorship and headhunting roles. International Education Adviser to the Department of the Premier and Cabinet from 2006 to 2010, in 2014...

Anne Nginyangka Thompson is a Pitjantjatjara living in Pukatja community on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the far north of South Australia. She is a qualified translator and a strong advocate for Anangu. In 2023, she was elected the Chair of Ernabella Arts.

Maya Hodge is a Lardil and Yangkaal emerging writer and curator based on the lands of the Kulin Nation. Maya’s writing and poetry have been published by Kill Your Darlings, Art Collector, Australian Poetry, Craft Victoria, Books+Publishing, Hardie Grant, Cordite Poetry Review, and Overland.

Caitlin Eyre is an arts writer and the Curator and Exhibitions Manager at JamFactory in Adelaide (Tarntanya), South Australia. In 2024, she curated JamFactory ICON Julie Blyfield: Chasing a passion, a major national touring exhibition of Julie Blyfield's work. Caitlin has previously undertaken a curatorial internship at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,...

Carly Tarkari Dodd is a Kaurna/Narungga/Ngarrindjeri artist and curator based in Tarntanya (Adelaide, South Australia). As the First Nations Engagement Coordinator and Assistant Curator at JamFactory she has worked closely with First Nations artists and art centres on many projects.

Jeremy Hill, an airline pilot for 30 years, has spent most of his life in Ireland. In 2003 he established The Norman Gallery in County Wexford (Ireland) and engaged with local, national and overseas artists. The purchase of a Max Martin painting in Dublin in 1998 began his research into the little known Melbourne artist born in 1889. The search for Martin's 1924...

As a commercial pilot and engineer, Paul Dare brought more than 25 years' experience to producing the contemporary photographs for South Australia From Above, drawing on his knowledge of photogrammetry, imaging technologies and aerial surveying.

Adelaide-based Paul has been a photographer since childhood. He is now one of Australia's leading airborne imaging...

Glenn Barkley is a Sydney-based independent curator, artist and valuer. He was previously senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia from 2008 to 2014, and curator of the University of Wollongong Art Collection from 1996 to 2007. Between 2007 and 2008, he was director and curator of the Ergas Collection. Barkley is currently an Associate Curator of The...

Sasha Grbich is an artist, writer and lecturer at the Adelaide Central School of Art where she teaches in sculpture, art history and theory. Grbich is a regular contributor to Artlink and other critical review publications. She was awarded the 2018 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship to attend the Maumaus School's School of Visual Art in Portugal, and...

Ross Wolfe is an Adelaide-based administrator and writer. He has held influential roles in Australian arts administration, including as director of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, from 1983, where he secured formal Italian and Australian government agreements for a permanent Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. An activist in his early career, he founded the...

Kurt Bosecke's work is based on the profuse use of colourful markers. He has evolved his intuitive mark-making, audacious use of colour and quirky language into ceramics, sculpture, performance and illustration.

Kurt lives with autism. Making art helps him to communicate and to keep calm.

Jake Holmes is an artist living in Adelaide, South Australia. His practice focuses on printmaking and illustration, and his work is held in several major collections.

Janeen Brian is an award-winning Australian author of more than a hundred books for young readers - picture books, fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her work has been published and distributed worldwide.

Leslie Kilmartin, a former senior university academic, is an author living in Melbourne.

Anthony Smith, former board member of Suicide Prevention Australia, is at the forefront of a movement that aims to change the way we consider mental health and suicide prevention. He is co-author of papers and reports promoting the Situational Approach, a concept that offers a fresh way of considering mental health by taking situational factors (such as economic and social...

Through more than 40 years in print journalism, David Sly has worked for the News and Advertiser in Adelaide, was editor of the Adelaide Review, been published in more than 50 Australian and international magazines as a freelance contributor, and is a graduate of the University of Adelaide / Le Cordon Bleu Gastronomy course. After initially focusing on music and...

Roz Bellamy is a writer, editor and researcher living in Naarm/Melbourne. Their work has been published in The Big Issue, Crikey, the Guardian, Huffington Post, Island Magazine, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, Overland and SBS, and in anthologies Growing Up Queer in Australia (Black Inc.) and...

Phyllis Somerville completed her schooling in Adelaide at Methodist Ladies College and graduated in 1924. Always an avid reader, she composed her own words with music for family occasions.

Jan Lokan has Cornish origins traced back to Crowan in the early 1600s. Her forebears were 'tinners', then copper miners. Her great-grandfather brought his family to Moonta Mines in 1864, but soon opened a much-needed school for miners' children. Jan is an Adelaide University Arts graduate and later gained a PhD in Education in Ottawa, Canada. Her working life was in...

Paul Blackman grew up in Sydney and started taking music lessons while in primary school. He was accepted into the Sydney Conservatorium High School where for six years he benefited from rubbing shoulders with current and future members of the orchestral music scene in Australia.

After a period in the ABC Training Orchestra, he was appointed Sub Principal...

Ian Hancock has written extensively on the political history of Uganda and of Southern Rhodesia/Rhodesia/Zimbabwe; and taught courses on imperial, colonial and African history at Monash University and on African, Australian and British history at the Australian National University.

Hilton Koppe is a writer, workshop facilitator, podcaster and doctor living on Bundjalung land on the east coast of Australia.

Roanna McClelland is an emerging writer of fiction and non-fiction with a background spanning environmental policy, law, politics, media, and research. Her debut novel, The Comforting Weight of Water, won the Arts South Australia Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2022. She is currently completing a PhD in environment and water law. Her work explores...

Comedian, journalist, teacher, radio presenter and cabaret performer Libby Trainor Parker does a lot of things, but writing is her first love. She had her first piece published in the Canberra Times when she was eight years old (a clever little poem about being addicted to telly), which could very well have been her peak. Libby has had her work published across a...

Sonya Spreen Bates is a Canadian writer and author who has made South Australia her home since 1997. She writes for adults and children. Sonya started writing when her children were young, and had her first children's book published in 2003. Her debut adult novel, Inheritance of Secrets (2020, HarperCollins Australia), was shortlisted for the inaugural Banjo Prize...

Gillian Thomas has travelled for most of her life, often alone in the early years, and frequently to Italy in pursuit of opera and a chance to speak the language. Also a fan of Test cricket, she attends every day of every Test match at Adelaide Oval. She gets her love of sport from her father, Gordon Harris, who played 37 first class matches for South Australia between 1920...

Martin Hamilton-Smith is a former senior officer in Army Special Forces, entrepreneur and businessman, who in a third career served twenty-one years in the South Australian parliament. First elected in 1997 as the Member for Waite, rising through the ranks to become Cabinet Secretary in the Olsen Liberal Government, Minister for Tourism and Innovation in the Kerin Liberal...

Shannon Brett is a proud Wakka Wakka/Butchulla/Gooreng Gooreng person and experienced researcher/writer and curator who is skilled in various areas of research, arts management, arts writing, fashion design, graphic design, public speaking, photography and arts mentorship. They hold a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art; Photography and Fine Art via the...

Clare Press is a Sydney-based author and documentary filmmaker, and founder of 'The Wardrobe Crisis', a sustainable fashion podcast and online course platform, based on her 2016 book of the same name. She produces and co-hosts the 'Ethical Fashion' podcast with UN officer Simone Cipriani, and pioneered the role of Sustainability Editor at Vogue. Clare has been a...

Stephen Goddard is a multidisciplinary designer, curator and academic. Stephen has worked with JamFactory on four survey exhibitions: Wood (2013), Glass (2015), Steel (2017) and Concrete (2019). During the COVID lockdown in 2021, he conceived, curated and built the project Happy objects for the Australian Design Centre, which included...

Meryl Ryan is a widely travelled curator with over three decades experience in the arts sector, including seven years as an editor/writer in London, UK. Currently commissioned for a biennial exhibition series at The Lock-Up (2020-2028), and previously Senior Curator, Museum of Art and Culture yapang, she has curated over 70 contemporary multidisciplinary exhibitions with...

Michael LaReaux earned his degree in Creative Writing from California State University, Hayward and splits his time between Maine and the worlds of his own creation where he is free to be a self-sacrificing, heroic combination of Humphrey Bogart and Superman. He lives in an old farmhouse with his wife, two rambunctious dogs, and a very destructive cat.

Margi Prideaux has written about wildlife, international politics, and law almost every day for the past thirty years. As an international negotiator and independent academic, with a Ph.D in wildlife policy and law, her words have been tuned to inform policy audiences in over twenty different international conservation processes. She has five books and her shorter musings...

Michelle Jager is an Adelaide-based fiction writer, often of the speculative kind. She recently won the Elle Australia 2018 short story competition, placed runner-up in the InkTears' 2018 short story competition, and was short-listed for the Hammond House Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines including Elle,...

Julia Both is a Brazilian born, Australian artist who specialises in large-scale artwork that celebrates the natural world. From her Melbourne studio base, she has explored several illustrative styles for book formats.

Alice Teasdale grew up in the Adelaide Hills where a beautiful garden and the threat of fire dominated her childhood. She has directed oodles of theatre and short films, and written plays, screenplays and all sorts of other stories. For the last ten years she's been living on a Kangaroo Island farm with three extraordinary children, chooks, ducks, dogs and a sheep who thinks...

Stewart Roper was born in Greenock, Scotland, and emigrated to Australia with his family as 'ten pound poms' on the good ship SS Oronsay. He worked in a variety of jobs before undertaking studies in nursing which eventually led to him travelling to work on the Pitjantjatjara Lands in remote north west South Australia and, much to his surprise (and possibly the...

Mark Valenzuela is an artist of two worlds. Born and raised in the Philippines, Valenzuela moved to Adelaide, South Australia, as an adult in his thirties. His ceramics and installation practice has since drawn on this duality, oscillating geographically, artistically and politically between the two countries.

Anna O'Loughlin is an Adelaide-based arts writer.

Belinda Howden is an independent researcher, writer and educator focused primarily on contemporary Australian visual art.

Hugo Shaw started his drawing as a preschooler lying on a rug on the floor surrounded by paper and pencils. A long and successful career as an artist followed.

John Riviere Morris is an award-winning short story writer who spent family holidays at Point Lonsdale in Victoria. In the evenings the cry would be heard, 'Hurry up and finish your dinners. John is ready to tell you a Grandfather Shark story in the bunkroom.' In a moment, every child and some not so young would be jostling for position on the beds.

Karen Starko is a physician, epidemiologist, and clinical trial expert who trained in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital and in infectious diseases at Brown Affiliated Hospitals and Harvard University. She was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Field Services Division of the Center for Disease, United States Public Health Service, stationed at the Arizona...

Rosamund Burton was born in Ireland and grew up in England, before returning to Ireland with her family when she was 18. She became an actress, performing at Dublin's Gate and Gaiety Theatres, and in the film Educating Rita with Julie Walters and Michael Caine. She then worked for the UK's first left-wing think tank. She moved to Australia in the mid-1990s following...

Patricia Booth is the great-granddaughter of E.H. Coombe and she spent her early years with his second son James Bright and his wife, Alma (nee Sauer). Many stories were told about Harry and the Coombe family, which she took to heart. Even as a child, it was obvious to her that her great grandfather's tragic death had changed the course of her grandfather's life. Now Harry's...

Helen Hennessy experienced a varied career as a library manager, teacher, local historian and a community engagement officer with the South Australian Country Fire Service. Helen Hennessy is now able to devote her time to researching and writing history. In 2019 she was awarded the title of South Australian Regional Historian by the History Council of South Australia.

Heather Taylor-Johnson is an American-born, multi-form writer, living and working on Kaurna land near Port Adelaide. She's the author of five poetry collections and a verse novel. The anthology she edited, Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of chronic illness and pain, is read in disability circles around the world. Her essays have won Island's Nonfiction Prize and...

Peter Walker is a visual artist, furniture designer and surfboard builder. His material of choice is timber, in all of its typologies and manipulations. Walker's creative practice is entwined with teaching and mentoring as well as developing industry-related and cultural initiatives, which highlight the importance of art and design in our society, ecology and education...

Lara Merrington has worked as a photographer, writer and curator for over ten years. She is passionate about investigating the intersections of art, architecture and design and is currently the Curator for Snohetta, Australasia. She has undertaken curatorial residencies in Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Germany and France and, in 2019, was an Exhibitions Team Leader at the...

Rosanne Somerson is a designer, professor and academic leader who has advanced art and design for decades. She is Rhode Island School of Design President Emerita and maintains a successful studio creative practice, designing and creating furniture for exhibitions and commissions. Somerson is an author and subject of many podcasts, frequently advocating for the power of...

Cathy Brooks is a South Australian artist working across the fields of graphics, painting, photography and mixed media installation. She is actively involved in community and urban arts projects often using recycled materials and collaborative processes.

She graduated from the South Australian School of Art in 1980 with a BA in photography and sculpture and completed...

Tina Oldknow is an independent curator and art historian specialising in contemporary art, craft and design in glass. The former Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, she has curated over 30 exhibitions and has written over 100 books, articles and essays on glass. In 2014, she was named an Honorary Fellow of the...

Julie Ewington is a curator and writer based in Sydney, Australia. After an academic career at Flinders University (Adelaide), University of Sydney, and Canberra School of Art (now Australian National University), she worked for three decades as a curator. Between 2001 and 2014 Julie led Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, contributing to the...

Robert (Bob) T. Harris is a well-known spokesperson for civil society and non-government organisations, and for many years represented them in a wide range of global institutions, including as former president of the Conferences of NGOs at the UN and UNESCO, secretary-general of the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP), and chair of an OECD...

John Grant grew up in Ireland, moved to Australia for postgraduate research in zoology, and has lived there for the past 35 years. He teaches tertiary field programs on ecology and conservation in Australia and Indonesia. His research interests are ecology and behaviour of birds, particularly those in Australia's Wet Tropics and Gulf Country regions. His other interests...

Jasmin Morley is a linguist at the University of Adelaide.

Susie Greenwood is a researcher at the University of Adelaide.

Rob Kudnuitya Amery, a non-Aboriginal man, started working with Kaurna in 1989 and began running Kaurna language workshops in the early 1990s. From 1995 to 1998 he studied the language intensively for a PhD which was published as Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language in 2000. He has been instrumental in setting up Kaurna language programs in schools...

Maddy Proud is the co-captain of the NSW Swifts, the 2021 Super Netball Premiers, and a member of the Australian Netball Diamonds Squad. When she signed for the Adelaide Thunderbirds she was 16, the youngest player ever to be contracted in the Trans-Tasman ANZ Championships. Grace back on Court is the second book in her Grace series but can be read as a stand-alone...

Jodi McAlister is an author of young adult fiction, as well as rom-coms for adults. Her YA paranormal romance Valentine trilogy (2017-2019) is published by Penguin Teen Australia. Her first adult rom-com was published by Simon & Schuster in 2022, with its sequel in 2023. Libby Lawrence is Good at Pretending is her first contemporary romance for young adult...

Edwina Preston is a Melbourne-based writer and musician. Preston is the author of a biography of Australian artist Howard Arkley, Not Just a Suburban Boy and the novel The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer. Her writing and reviews have appeared in the Age, the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Heat, Island and...

Associate Professor Josephine Caust PhD is a Principal Fellow (Hon) at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of several books, journal articles and book chapters. She has worked in the arts sector as a practitioner, manager, senior bureaucrat, academic and consultant.

Emeritus Professor Andrew Hill is a visual artist, academic and cultural activist. He is co-founder of Nexus Arts and has been both the Director of the South Australian School of Art and the Associate Head of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia. He has been appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia, with his artworks held in numerous...

Obsessed by the human form, Bill Cook bucked the 1970s trend of abstract art, focusing instead on figurative painting and drawing during his art studies at the prestigious South Australian School of Art in North Adelaide. In addition to his paintings and drawings, he was soon producing political cartoons, caricatures and illustrations for a range of publications.

Over a career...

Christopher Steele was born in 1937, attended St Peters College at Hackney, South Australia, and from an early age was interested in trams and trolley buses, the latter because he grew up near the Tusmore trolleybus route in Adelaide.

From 1955, he studied at the then South Australian Institute of Technology and became a survey draftsman for the South Australian...

Dr John Radcliffe, AM, was born in 1938 and grew up in Fullarton, South Australia, initially attending Highgate Public School, clutching two pennies for his tram fare there and back and a book to record the numbers of the trams in which he travelled. A 'Bib and Bub' tram set often came at a propitious time and John caught it whenever he could. Later, he transferred to St...

Tom (Thomas) Wilson was born in Adelaide in 1947 in a private hospital in Malvern adjacent to the Kingswood tramline. He attended St Joseph's School, Kingswood, first catching the old 'maximum traction bogie' trams from Malvern to school, then Winders and Wadeson's and later the Westbourne Park Bus Company's buses along Cross Road from Clarence Park. He then attended...

Paul Tucker was born into a military service family, and in his younger years lived in England, Europe and South-East Asia. His family settled in South Australia in 1973. In 1990 he joined the South Australia Police. In January 2000 Paul was seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Branch (MCIB) to assist in the investigation into the murder of Robert Sabeckis in Maslin...

Professor Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia. Her research centres upon Australia's colonial past and its legacies in the present. Her books include Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians (Duke, 2005), Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Imperial...

Dr Yuriko Nagata is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the School of Languages and Cultures of the University of Queensland. Her book Unwanted Aliens (1996, UQ press) is a standard reference work on Japanese internment in Australia during World War II.

Hiroko Cockerill is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, specialising in translation studies. Her research includes books and articles about the translations of Futabatei Shimei. She has translated several books, from Russian to Japanese and from Japanese to English.

Miyakatsu Koike worked in 1941 for a Japanese bank in Indonesia (at the time known as the Dutch East Indies). When Japan entered World War II, he was arrested by Dutch authorities and, eventually, transferred to Australia's Loveday - the largest World War II internment camp in the country. Koike remained in Loveday until February 1946, and wrote a diary of his experiences...

Andrew Roff's short fiction has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Griffith Review and Going Down Swinging, among other outlets. He was the winner of the 2020 Peter Carey Short Story Award and the 2018 Margaret River Press Short Story Competition, as well as having been shortlisted and commended in many other short story prizes. In 2016, his...

Allayne L. Webster is an internationally published Children's and Young Adult author. She also plays guitar/sings and sometimes she illustrates. She is the proud recipient of three arts grants and a South Australian Premier's Reading Challenge Ambassador. She has served on literary festival boards and her novels have been listed for various awards.

John Holmes is an Honours and Doctoral graduate of Flinders University, and holds a Masters from the University of South Australia where he was an Associate Professor (Head of School and Associate Head of School) in UniSA's School of Education.

Susan Bardy graduated with a PhD, and other academic qualifications, from the University of South Australia. She was also a highly qualified and experienced general and palliative care nurse. She ran marathons and still walks considerable distances most days of the week.

Janet Whitham has been a member of the YWCA for almost 60 years. She is the author of multiple titles including An Amazing Woman.

Christo Reid, a great-grandchild of Sidney Kidman, uncovered never-before-published photographs and letters and assembled them in Kidman, an autobiography about the titular cattle king of 19th century Australia, alongside text by Jill Bowen. The result is a fascinating record of the development of one of Australia's backbone industries and the life of a great...

Mary Cassini, born in Canterbury in the UK, was a child actor before becoming a cadet newspaper reporter, then training in fine art. Immigrating to Melbourne with her family in 1958, Mary continued acting in theatre and films, becoming professional in 1973. In 2013, she was made Honorary Member of Actors Equity division, MEAA.

In the 1970s, Mary began weaving...

Jelena Dinic arrived in Australia in 1993. She writes in Serbian and in English. In 2014 she was a resident at the Eleanor Dark Foundation, Varuna Writers' Retreat in the Blue Mountains. The same year she co-edited the Friendly Street Poets Anthology, The Infinite Dirt. Her chapbook Buttons On My Dress was published in spring 2015 by Garron publishing. She...

Sara Haghdoosti was born in Iran, grew up in Sydney and now lives in Chicago. Like her protagonist, she has been politically active from a young age. Sara got her start in organising at the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and then went on to work at GetUp, Change.org, the Mozilla Foundation and founded Berim ('Let's go' in Farsi) - a non-profit that worked to support...

Jo Smith is a contributing author of the book Prospect Hill.

George Merryman is a contributing author of the book Prospect Hill.

Dr Jordan Ralph is an adjunct lecturer in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. He obtained a PhD in archaeology from Flinders University in 2020 following his research on the material culture of government interventions in an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Prof. Heather Burke is an historical archaeologist with a wide range of research interests, including the construction of class and status through material culture, the archaeology of cross-cultural engagement and the links between cultural heritage, memory and contemporary social identity. She graduated with a PhD from the University of New England (Armidale, New South...

Luke Scholes was Curator of Aboriginal Art and Material Culture at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory between 2015 and 2021. During this time he curated the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards. Between 2003 and 2007 he worked as a field officer and later as Assistant Manager at Papunya Tula Artists. In 2008 he worked for Martumili...

Alison Milyika Carroll, a senior Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara woman, is an accomplished artist and a significant cultural leader and an important advocate and mentor for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and arts across the APY Lands. She is the current Chair of Ernabella Arts, Pukatja Community, APY Lands, and has been involved with the organisation as an...

Belinda Briggs is Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba, living and working in the Dungala Kaiela (Goulburn Murray) region in northern Victoria. Currently writer and curator at the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM), she is also vice-president of Kaiela Arts and passionate about her community, particularly her contributions to the endeavours of the Rumbalara Football Netball Club. Belinda's...

Tasmanian Robert Cox is a former copywriter, journalist, newspaper subeditor, and magazine editor with a special interest in the history of his home state. His publications include eight other books and numerous articles, essays, short stories, and reviews, plus an unobtrusive poem or two.

Elspeth Pitt is Curator, Australian Art, at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, where she specialises in modern and contemporary Australian art, with a particular interest in conceptual performance and poetry practices, and has published widely in these fields.

Dr Jacqueline Millner is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has published widely on contemporary Australian and international art; selected books include Contemporary Art and Feminism (with Catriona Moore, Routledge, 2021), Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary outtakes (co-edited with Catriona Moore, Routledge,...

Nic Brown is Collections Curator at Flinders University Museum of Art, Adelaide. She has published widely on Australian art and was editor-in-chief for the anthology Speak To Me: Conversations with the Flinders University art collections (2016), and editor of Head-To-Head: Shifting perspectives in Australian portraiture (2018). Brown co-curated the major...

Russell Jeavons owned and operated an eccentric pizza restaurant for many years in Willunga on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia, a region famous for its almonds, olive oil and McLaren Vale wine. Known simply as 'Russell's', the restaurant - which for many years opened only on Friday nights - gained a cult following due to the combination of fresh, wholesome food...

Jack Hibberd has written over sixty plays, including A Stretch of the Imagination, Dimboola, A Toast to Melba, The Les Darcy Show, Captain Midnight VC, One of Nature's Gentlemen, Three Old Friends, The Overcoat and Peggy Sue.

He has published three novels and three volumes of poetry.

Barry Nicholls presents Early Mornings in Western Australia. For five years Barry presented a digital show for ABC Grandstand about sports books, 110 Percent, that was regularly heard across the country. A keen writer about sports Barry has written six books. He has also written for many cricket publications.

Catherine Bishop, an award-winning historian, lives in the Blue Mountains near Sydney with her partner and a decorative cat. When not writing, she can be found in the garden, where the weeds grow faster than words on the page.

Andrew Purvis is the curator at Adelaide Central Gallery, attached to Adelaide Central School of Art. He also works as an educator and practising artist. His writing on art has been published widely.

Bernadette Klavins is a South Australian artist, writer, and arts worker. Working within the field of sculpture, Klavins draws upon the transformative and poetic potential of materials and processes, and explores their relationship to deep time.

Sean Williams is an award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of fifty-odd novels and more than 120 short stories for all ages. As well as his original fiction, he has contributed to shared universes such as Star Wars and Doctor Who. In recent years his work has been recognised by the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, the Patricia...

Susan Petrilli is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She has published widely on the philosophy of language, semiotics and translation theory.

Wallace McKitrick has been an Honorary Adjunct Fellow at the University of Adelaide and a senior policy officer with the Australian Government's Ministry for the Arts. He was a student of Brian Medlin in the 1960s and 70s and remained a close friend thereafter.

Kerry Anderson was raised in a small business family in Central Victoria, and is the founder of the Operation Next Gen Program, working with rural towns across Australia encouraging them to look at existing landscapes with fresh eyes and to adapt to change. In 2017 Kerry was invited to Kansas City by the Kauffman Foundation to represent Australia and share best practice in...

Robbie Brechin is a failed banker-turned-journalist, and has worked in mainstream media for four decades. He has written on rock music (pseudonym Thor Fingers) and nightlife for the Advertiser, politics for the News, and was a producer at Channel 7 and ABC Radio.

South Australia's own Peter Goers is a reformed social irritant. Since 1971 he has worked as actor, director, designer, critic, academic and entertainer on two continents. He began writing for the Advertiser in 1985 and has contributed a weekly opinion column in the Sunday Mail since 1991. Peter Goers has won eleven awards as presenter, since 2003, of the...

Elizabeth Hutchins, former teacher and executive officer of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English, is author of a dozen books, as well as prize-winning travel and environmental articles and many short stories. She lives in Adelaide with her husband and her constant companion Millie, an RSPCA rescue cat.

Marissa Slaven was born and raised in Montreal by parents who taught her that it was her responsibility to do her part to make the world a better place. She has always loved stories with strong female characters and was searching for a YA novel where the heroine saves the world using her intelligence and compassion.

Jed Brody is a Senior Lecturer in Physics. His short fiction has appeared in Creative Loafing and an anthology of Science Fiction by Scientists. His essays have appeared in Physics Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and One Hand Does Not Catch a Buffalo: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories: Volume One: Africa. He was a Peace Corps...

Lauren E. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University and a Master of Arts degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She serves as a consultant to the United Nations family of organisations, an eco-writer and editor for the International...

Amy Barker's debut novel Omega Park won the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Emerging Author, was shortlisted for the 2010 FAW (Fellowship of Australian Writers) Christina Stead Award for fiction and was Winner of the 2012 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Ena Noel Award. Paradise Earth, Amy's second novel, won the 2013...

Jet James is an award-winning Australian artist recognised for printmaking, painting and mixed media artworks.

Becky Westbrook was born and raised on beautiful Kangaroo Island in South Australia.

Rob Carney is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Facts and Figures (Hoot 'n' Waddle 2020), and The Book of Sharks (Black Lawrence Press 2018), which was a finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Award. In 2014 he received the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry.

Gillie and Marc Schattner are best selling authors and illustrators of The Happiest Day of My Life, The Perfect Gift, and True Love. As artists their work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Sydney, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Belgium. Their work has also appeared in group shows all over the world. Gillie and Marc work collaboratively, so...

Dr Basil S. Hetzel was the first Michell Professor of Medicine at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and his research linking iodine deficiency with intellectual disability and deformities in infants has had a profound impact on global public health.

Former SA Premier, the Hon. Dr John Bannon, AO (1943-2015), published and lectured extensively on the history of Australian federation. He served as a minister, Leader of the Opposition, and, from 1982 to 1992, as Premier and Treasurer of South Australia. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party from 1988 to 1991.

Amy T. Matthews has published short stories in collections including Best Australian Stories, and has been longlisted for the Australian/Vogel literary award. She lives in Adelaide with her partner and children, and teaches at Flinders University.

Martin R. Johnson was born at Gawler, north-east of Adelaide, in 1950. The first 12 years of his life were spent growing up at the married workmen's camp at nearby Humbug Scrub, during the building of the South Para Reservoir. The Clothes-prop Man was published in 2002, a collection of poetry celebrating the working-class lifestyles of the people who lived there.

Leemon B. McHenry is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at California State University, Northridge.

John F. Roe was born and brought up in rural Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom. He later read History at St John's College, Cambridge, and acquired a degree in English from London University. After graduating he taught and travelled in Europe and Africa and wherever there were mountains. At twenty-eight John married Ella Burley and began a more organised life altogether, as...

John L. Read lives with his wife and young family on Eyre Peninsula, on the largest private nature reserve in South Australia. He is a passionate ecologist and spends most of his working and relaxing hours researching animals from deadly taipan snakes to critically endangered mammals and working with traditional landowners. John has published over 100 scientific manuscripts...

Steve J. Spears has been a professional writer for thirty years. He is best known as the author of one of Australia's classic plays, The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin. He has published stage plays, children's books, a collection of his essays and a series of darkly comic whodunit novels under the collective title of The Pentangeli Papers.

Juliet A. Paine is a local South Australian, born in 1979 and raised in Adelaide, and has also spent three years living in Hobart. She attended Saint Peters’ Girls’ School in Stonyfell and the University of Adelaide graduating with a BA Honours (First Class) in English. Her poetry, articles and short fiction have appeared in both local and national journals and...

Peter Winter was born in Adelaide in 1945 and educated at Adelaide Boys' High School and Roseworthy Agricultural College. He was called up for National Service in 1965 in the 'first ballot', and selected for Scheyville, the Officer Training Unit near Windsor, New South Wales. He graduated as a second lieutenant and was posted to the Infantry Centre at Ingleburn, in...

Peter Winch is a freelance writer.

Margaret Winch and Peter McNamara have spent a decade prying loose the very best of Australian fantastic fiction available. Forever Shores follows in the wake of their hugely successful Alien Shores.

Jenny Wilson was born in England in 1959. Her parents came to live in Adelaide when Jenny was 6 months of age. After completing her schooling Jenny studied Maths and Music at the University of Adelaide before completing a Diploma of Education. She taught Maths for fifteen years at schools in Adelaide and in England. Jenny left teaching to embark on a Bachelor of Theology....

Colin Wilson is the author of Serial Killer Investigations. His previous works include The Outsiders and A Criminal History of Mankind.

When Rosemary Cadden and Jane Willcox met 25 years ago, Rosemary was impersonating a haggis. Food has been a big part of their relationship ever since. They later shared their first meal when they found themselves sitting at the same table at a publicity junket while working as journalists for the Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide. Although they went in different...

Joyce Westrip was born in southern India in 1929, moved to England in 1947, and from 1955 lived in Perth, Western Australia, where she completed her education at the University of Western Australia. Indian history and culture hold her fascinated, and she regularly visits the subcontinent to continue her research. She has the largest known collection of books on Indian...

Barry Westburg was born in Iowa, but as a boy migrated to California, where in later years he worked as a salesman, postman, car park attendant, security patrolman, steeplejack, and removalist, until his appointment as a statistician on the Apollo moonrocket project, under Wernher von Braun. He attended California and Ivy League universities, before eventually moving to New...

John West-Sooby is Professor of French Studies at the University of Adelaide.

Imogen Lloyd Webber is a writer and producer from London who is living and loving the single girl's life. Aged 30, she's almost had as many bosses as boyfriends, but despite multiple mistakes involving mobile phones and men, was still not desperate enough to accept the wonderful opportunity to find true love on a reality TV show.

Bronwen Webb has had a long association with the healthcare sector, including at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the Queen Victoria Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre and Ashford Hospital. In 1998, she moved from Ashford to the University of South Australia, retiring from the position of Division Director, Division of Health Sciences, in 2013. From 2016, she has worked as a...

Maggie Watson, an Art History Graduate of the University of Adelaide, holds a Masters in Fine and Decorative Art from the Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, and worked in the Modern British Art department of Christie's London before returning to Australia. As an art consultant she has written catalogue essays for several Australian artists including the catalogue notes for...

Sera Waters is an artist and independent arts writer. She has written for selected national art journals and exhibits nationally. Sera Waters lives in Adelaide with her partner and two sons.

Lynette Washington is a writer, editor, publisher and teacher of creative and professional writing. Her stories have been published widely and performed at events such as Spineless Wonders Presents and Quart Short Literary Readings. Plane Tree Drive, her debut title, was Highly Commended in the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and shortlisted for the MUBA....

John Wareham is the author of the international bestsellers Secrets of a Corporate Headhunter and The Anatomy of a Great Executive. He lives in New York City.

Peter Ward is a veteran journalist who for many years wrote on architecture and design for the Australian as well as many journals. He has been a member of the Board of the Art Gallery of South Australia. He is well-known also as a fiercely independent political writer.

Wendy Walker is an Adelaide-based writer and art critic. She is the contemporary art critic for the Advertiser and is the Adelaide Corresponding Editor for London's Contemporary magazine. In addition she has written numerous catalogue essays and articles on a broad range of the visual arts for leading art journals. She lives with her partner in the Adelaide...

Rob Walker was a late bloomer. He began writing poetry and sending it to websites in the late 90s. Since then he's had over 200 poems published in websites, journals, magazines and anthologies, in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the USA, Ireland and Canada. Recent work has appeared in Best Australian Poems 2005 and been performed on ABC Radio National's...

Clinton Walker is a writer Sydney's Sun-Herald has called 'our best chronicler of Australian grass-roots culture'. An art school drop-out and recovering rock critic, he was born in Bendigo in 1957, and is the author of numerous books, including Highway to Hell (1994), his internationally acclaimed, best-selling biography of Bon Scott.

Fiona Verity has a background in community work andactivism. She is a lecturer in the School of Social Administration and Social Work at Flinders University, Adelaide, and has a keen interest in astronomy.

Frank Van Straten is a patron of the Cinema and Theatre Historical Society and was a member of the Board of the National Theatre. He is a founding member of Theatre Heritage Australia, and has served on the judging panels of the Green Room and Helpmann Awards. He was historical consultant for Graeme Murphy's spectacular 2001 'dance musical' Tivoli and for a...

Emeritus Professor Graham Tulloch teaches English in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University.

Maggie Tonkin is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Adelaide, where she publishes and teaches in the areas of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She has a background in dance and writes and reviews for the national dance press.

Andy Thurlow is a retired primary school teacher, having taught in both private and government schools throughout Australia. Born in the Channel Islands he now lives in the Barossa Valley in South Australia. He is married with two children.

Katharine Thornton matriculated from St Peter’s Girls School in Adelaide as dux of humanities. She studied history at the University of Adelaide, graduating with a first class honours degree. Her research interests have encompassed the roles of women in Australian history, the French language, the cinema arts, and the consequences of war. St Peter’s College appointed...

Mark Thomson is a writer, designer and maker, working in the field of resourceful problem-solving cultures, championing the meaning and benefits that flow from those activities. He is the author of a number of books including Blokes and Sheds, Makers, Breakers and Fixers, Rare Trades and The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke. He is the...

Andrew Thompson is a chef of many years' experience who lives in Adelaide.

Rod Taylor co-founded Adelaide Central School of Art with his then wife, Heather Nicholson, in 1982. He retired from ACSA and as an Associate Professor of Flinders University in 2008.

Dr Greg Taylor is a senior lecturer in Law at Monash University.

Anne-marie Taplin, the mother of two boys, has a passion for exploring the challenges of raising the next generation.

John Millington Synge, who was born in 1871, studied at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and then at the Sorbonne. With W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and others, he was a co-founder and later a director of the Abbey Theatre; as a playwright, he is best known for The Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea. He died in 1909,...

Michael Tallis, DSc, researched mathematical problems in genetics, biology and medicine, and is affiliated with the University of Adelaide. With respect to The Silent Showman Michael and his wife, Joan, 'started with nothing and came from nowhere' as Melbourne Punch might have put it. Gradually, as the story unfolded, they became fascinated by the JC...

Burt Surmon was born and bred in King's (Bloody) Cross in the 'good old days' when The Cross functioned like a European bohemian quarter with its mix of titillating cultures.

He is now retired and lives in Adelaide's CBD with his beloved Jeni, cogitating on the past, contemplating the future.

Nu Suandokmai is a Thai chef renowned for bringing authetic Thai cooking to Adelaide. He is the restauranter behind Nu Thai Gouger Street, Nu's in Sydney and now Lantern by Nu.

Gloria Strzelecki is a freelance curator and writer. She has worked at the Art Gallery of South Australia and Adelaide Central School of Art, and from 2007 until 2009 was co-director of a contemporary art space, 'A Room of Her Own', which she established in Adelaide. She is the author of Jacqueline Hick and Kathleen Sauerbier, both part of the Carrick...

A former public servant, Dr Jenny Stewart has published widely in the fields of public policy and public sector management, and is also well-known for her articles on current issues in management and policy in Quadrant and The Canberra Times.

Marie Steiner was born in Port Augusta, and grew up in the pine forests of the south-east of South Australia. She later studied at the Elder Conservatorium and University of Adelaide. She has worked for many years in the welfare area, in South Australia and the Northern Territory, where she became familiar with the appalling conditions endured by some women, and developed an...

Professor Karen Starr is the Foundation Chair, School Development and Leadership and Director of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Renewal at Deakin University. Her research interests lie in educational leadership, change, school renewal, governance, educational policy, rural education and equity. Karen commenced her career in education as a teacher of English and...

Brian Stace grew up in Adelaide and gained his law degree at the Adelaide University before marrying and moving almost immediately to Devonport, Tasmania, where he has lived for over 50 years. With all his siblings still living in South Australia, Brian (and his family) have frequently visited Adelaide and retained an interest in all things South Australian. He worked as a...

The late Griselda Sprigg was the first white woman to cross the Simpson Desert.

Catherine Speck is an art historian, writer, critic and curator. She is Professor Emerita of Art History and Curatorship at the University of Adelaide, and a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia. She convened and taught postgraduate programs in Art History and Curatorial and Museum Studies with the Art Gallery of South Australia from 2002 to 2020. She is a member...

Claire Smith is Professor in Archaeology at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Accompanied by her husband, Gary Jackson, and son, Jimmy Smith, she has worked closely with the Barunga, Manyallaluk and Wugularr communities every year since 1990.

Graham Smith was born into a middle-class family in Port Lincoln in 1924. After serving in the Australian Army in 1942 he joined the Communist Party and spent his life fighting to remedy what he saw as society's ills. Father of five children, he died in 1989.

Lisa Slade grew up in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. She attended university in Sydney, where she taught until 2002, then moved to Newcastle to become a mother, a university lecturer and a curator. In 2011 she relocated to Adelaide to take up the role of Project Curator at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In addition to curating exhibitions, this role involves...

A.M. Sladdin, an Adelaidean, runs a gallery-bookshop in the Mid North town of Saddleworth. She won Adelaide University’s 2005 Bundey Prize for English Verse with one of her MA (Creative Writing) poems. She has been published in several anthologies (her one favourable review by J.M. Coetzee!) and is currently undertaking her PhD. Since learning to write she has done so.

Nancy Singh lives in New South Wales.

James Sinclair has written widely on aspects of Papuan Highland history in a series of books going back to 1966: Behind the Ranges, The Outside Man, The Highlanders, Wings of Gold, his notes in Jack O’Neill’s Up From South, Kiap, Last Frontiers, To Find a Path Vol. One, The Money Tree,...

Mary Louise Simpson was born and raised in the South East of South Australia amongst relatives with a fund of historical anecdotes. After graduating in History from the University of Adelaide with a BA (Hons) she taught in high schools and worked on the South Australian Museum's Collections. She is married to Antony and they share a passion for history and sailing as well as...

Music, songs and singing have occupied the larger share of Elizabeth Silsbury's life as long as she can remember. She has worked as teacher, lecturer, conductor, repetiteur and critic for more than four decades, and has held influential positions in many arts organisations. Her reviews and features are published in local, interstate and overseas newspapers and journals. She...

Like his contemporary, Len Beadell, John Showers also in a lesser way opened up a part of the outback by planning and directing the building of the initial roads from Woomera to Olympic Dam and on to Lake Eyre.

John Schofield is a veteran journalist-turned-writer with extensive experience living and working throughout Australia and South-East Asia, with a lifelong interest in the direction of human development, an interest he shares with his co-author.

Marc and Gillie Schattner are best selling authors and illustrators of The Happiest Day of My Life, The Perfect Gift, and True Love. As artists their work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Sydney, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Belgium. Their work has also appeared in group shows all over the world. Gillie and Marc work collaboratively, so...

Allan Scarfe graduated from Melbourne University, gained qualifications as a teacher, and taught in Australia, England and India before settling with a young family in Warrnambool. Together, Allan and his wife Wendy wrote nonfiction books revealing their interest in history, political conflict and social injustice. Separately they wrote poetry, novels and short stories....

Michael X. Savvas completed a PhD, in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies at Flinders University – a crime novel as a metaphor for reconciliation. Michael feels infinitely qualified to write about crime, having genuine convict ancestry, living in an Adelaide suburb formerly known as Little Chicago, and being a Port Power supporter.

Eva Sallis also publishes under the name Eva Hornung. Her first novel Hiam won The Australian Vogel and the Dobbie Literary Awards. She is co-founder of Australians Against Racism and is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

J.R. Salamanca is the author of the highly celebrated novels The Lost Country and Lilith (Simon & Schuster) as well as A Sea Change, Embarkation, and Southern Light (Knopf).

Gaynor Sadlo is Head of Occupational Therapy at the University of Brighton in Sussex, England and a sculptor. She held her first exhibition of stone and ceramic sculpture in Adelaide in 1971 and completed her PhD in problem-based learning at the University of Queensland in 1997.

Beverley Rybarz worked as confidential secretary to the District Commissioner of Papua New Guinea in the 1950s. In Australia she has been an executive secretary for a number of organisations. Beverley is now enjoying her retirement in Adelaide.

Des Ryan was born in 1952 in Geelong, Victoria, and having no say in the choice of birthplace, still supports the Geelong Football Club. A serial failure seeking a good way to hide his intellectual shortcomings, he went into journalism after school. He managed to remain in radio for much of the 1970s by mouthing the words. In the eighties, he joined Messenger Newspapers....

George Rude was one of the twentieth century’s most innovative historians. His work has been translated into Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Portugese and Hungarian. He was born in Oslo in 1910 to a Norwegian father and a Scottish mother, and, after serving as a fireman in London during the Blitz and teaching in a variety of London schools, held professorships at...

Kerrie Round received a BA (Hons) and PhD in history from the University of Adelaide. She has lectured in Australian history and heritage at the University of Adelaide and Vanderbilt University, USA, and has worked as a researcher in the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. She has written or edited five books and many articles concerning the history...

Heather Rossiter is a scientist, writer and traveller who lives in Sydney. She is the author of Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer: The life of Herbert Dyce Murphy and Mawson’s Forgotten Men: The 1911–1913 diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson, while her articles, book reviews and travel pieces have appeared in Australian and overseas newspapers and magazines....

Jill Roe, AO, was born at Tumby Bay on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula and spent her first fourteen years living on the Peninsula. She is Professor Emerita in Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney, where she was awarded a DLitt as a higher research degree for her work on Australian writer Miles Franklin. In 2016, Jill was awarded the Australian Dictionary of...

Jo Robinson, a survivor of crime, had an extensive career as an Allied Health professional before joining VSS and training as a Court Companion.

Julia Robinson is a South Australian visual artist and educator. Drawing on myth, superstition, ritual and folklore, her sculptural practice ruminates on human attitudes to death and the afterlife.

Leigh Robb joined the Art Gallery of South Australia as the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art in 2016. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Psychology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and her Masters in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. With twenty years of experience in the arts Leigh's previous roles include Curator at...

Dr Simon Robb is interested in the experiences of marginalized young people and in exploring the limits of writing practice. He has published in the area of the sociology of education (Innovation and Tradition, 2004) and experimental histories (The Hulk, 2003). He has also written and produced several documentaries for radio.

Dick Richards has been involved with the decorative arts, crafts and design for many decades as curator at various galleries. He is a self-taught jeweller and has exhibited work in Adelaide, Sydney and Canberra.

Ivan Rehorek is also known as Avalanche 'because I am white and cover plenty of ground and tend to knock things flying and go WHOOOOSH a lot'.

Rod Reeve is an Australian scientist who has spent the last 25 years managing aid projects for the United Nations, AusAID, the World Bank and similar organisations. He lives in the Adelaide Hills and is the head of Coffey International Development Pty Ltd, one of Australia's leading aid contractors.

Robert Reason is Senior Curator of The David Roche Foundation, Adelaide. In 2008 he co-curated the exhibition and accompanying catalogue Empires and Splendour: The David Roche Collection for the Art Gallery of South Australia. Robert has published widely on the decorative arts and has worked in the Australian cultural sector for over 20 years.

Peter Read studied Modern History at Oxford University and taught at various schools in Kenya and the United Kingdom before joining the teaching staff at Scotch College in 1967. He was Housemaster of Anderson for eleven years and editor of Scotch College Magazine (now Cluaran) and Scotch Reports. While still at Anderson he was made Head of the...

Judith Raftery is a visiting Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Public Health at the University of Adelaide.

Dr Melinda Rackham is an artist, curator and writer. Her pioneering Australian internet art wove tales of intimacy and identity online, and her scholarly pursuits in virtual worlds saw her founding and producing the international media arts forum -empyre-. With the rise of web 2.0 her engagement shifted to the broader spectrum of media arts, art/science, making and design...

Musharella Puglisi is Bob Puglisi’s wife. She and Bob split their time between Ulladulla, in New South Wales, and Port Lincoln.

Maureen Prichard is an artist, illustrator, lettering artist, writer and sometime art educator. Her practice is heavily informed by her research interests in mediaeval manuscripts and the design and illustration of private press books from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a result her oeuvre centres on book illustration and decoration, and investigations...

Born and schooled in Melbourne, after post-graduate study in Oxford, Wilfrid Prest AM moved to Adelaide, where he has lived and worked for more than fifty years and is now Emeritus Professor of History and of Law.

Alex Pouw-Bray has a Masters degree from the University of Washington in Seattle and a PhD from Flinders University. He has taught in a wide variety of educational settings in Western Australia, Alberta and British Columbia in Canada, and in South Australia. He was Head of History at Scotch College Adelaide from 1990 until 2009. He has published articles in history of...

June Porter, born June Perry on 20 March 1919 in Melbourne, grew up in Perth. Always at the heart of the social scene, at the age of twenty she met and fell in love with polo-playing businessman Tom Porter. After a whirlwind courtship they married, and by curious twists of fate spent the last years of World War II in India. After the war, the Porters settled in Tom's...

Edouard de Pomiane was born in Paris, the son of Polish emigres. One of the twentieth century's greatest cookery writers, he lectured at the Institut Pasteur and wrote a number of classic books including Cooking with Pomiane, Cooking in Ten Minutes, and The Jews of Poland: Recollections and recipes. He died in 1964.

In their travels to Japan since 1985 to visit gardens, Newell Platten and Alison Main have developed a strong interest in Japanese culture. Each has pursued an award-winning career in architecture. Newell Platten, a Member of the Order of Australia for services to architecture and town planning, is an urban design consultant. Married, Newell and Alison live in Adelaide.

John Pfitzner received a commendation in the Max Harris Poetry Award 2008 and was joint runner-up in the 2009 Studio Prize. By profession he spent time as a minister of religion and as a publishing house editor. He lived for fifteen years in an Aboriginal community in Central Australia where he learnt an Aboriginal language. In his younger days he was an Aussie Rules player...

Nick Petrucco is happily married to Bec and they have three amazing kids, Indy, Maggie and Gus. After several years on the Mornington Peninsula and a couple in Penang, Malaysia, Nick and his family returned to Adelaide in late 2014. Nick and Bec shared the responsibility of leading Beyond Synergy - a family foundation dedicated to improving the health, safety and education...

Barry Pearce was born in 1944 in Adelaide, where he was educated, and began his art museum career at the Art Gallery of South Australia. From 1969 he lived in London, where he studied at the British Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings as a Harold Wright Scholar. On his return to Australia in 1975 he was appointed the first Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art...

Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, where he was formerly Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, and is Professor of History at Flinders University as well as Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books, most on Cornish themes. Recent volumes...

Helen Parsons grew up in Adelaide and studied history and English literature at the University of Adelaide, where she completed an Honours Degree. After university she spent time in Europe, including a year of study in Italy and a year of work in London. Back in Adelaide she worked as a teacher of English as a second language, and later in the Australian office of...

Graham Parr is a teacher educator in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, where he lectures in English Education, and curriculum and pedagogy.

Rebecca Pannell has taught Australian Studies, Cultural Studies and Academic Professional Development at Flinders University and has written about spirituality in Australian performance texts. She is a graduate of the University of Adelaide BA (Hons) and is completing her PhD in Theology and Cultural Studies. Rebecca is also a graduate of the Adelaide Centre for the...

Jennifer Palmer is a retired broadcaster with the ABC Radio National Social History Unit and other radio documentary feature programs. She has been a book and arts reviewer for national newspapers and an interviewer for oral history collections, and has published short stories and edited historical and heritage publications. A guide at the Art Gallery of South Australia for...

William (Bill) Othams was born in Adelaide. Subsequent sojourns in various South Australian country towns culminated in Bill also qualifying and working as a lawyer for 42 years, the last 41 at Port Pirie.

Since his childhood Bill has had an interest in history, and he always enjoyed undertaking the research required in his legal career. Bill also discovered that his...

Adelaide author and curator, Dr Margot Osborne, has a PhD in art history from the University of Adelaide, where she is a visiting research fellow. She is the author or co-author of numerous catalogues and books on Australian artists, including Liz Williams: Body language (Wakefield Press, 2017); Christopher Orchard: The uncertainty of the poet (SALA...

Noritah Omar is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of English of Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her research interests include Post-colonial theory and literature, and Gender Studies. She is also exploring images of Islam in English literature and in postcolonial literature. She has written articles on the application of feminist theories in literature and...

Barry Oakley is a playwright and novelist whose fiction includes the bestselling A Salute to the Great McCarthy and the prize-winning Let's Hear it for Prendergast. He has also written numerous plays, short stories, columns and articles. Barry Oakley has worked as a teacher, copywriter, zoo attendant, theatre critic and literary editor. He lives in the...

Patrick O'Leary PhD is Professor of Social Work Studies at the University of Southampton. Patrick's research interests are in gendered violence. He has worked on various child protection projects to support young people around the world. He has undertaken research on how people survive childhood trauma such as child sexual abuse.

Charmaine O’Brien was born in Melbourne in the mid 1960s. She grew up enjoying the good plain Anglo cookery of her grandparents and the ethnic food explorations of her mother. After training as a chef, Charmaine’s passion for food took her around the world and into a variety of jobs, including establishing a wholefoods cafe, managing a food and wine educational program,...

Joy Noble has worked as a social worker and administrator in South Australia, and as a community worker with women in New Guinea. She was the first woman to be appointed, in the early 1970s, to the position of regional director in South Australia’s Department for Community Welfare. Her books relating in particular to volunteering have sold widely throughout Australia. In...

Louise Nicholas is still waiting to bloom. In the meantime, she writes poetry. She too has a poem in Best Australian Poems 2005 and she has performed her work at various festivals, fundraisers and frivolous affairs in Adelaide, rural South Australia and interstate. Like Rob, Louise is a primary school teacher.

Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. Her previous co-authored books, also published by Wakefield Press, are Fatal Collisions (with Rick Hosking, 2001) and In the Name of the Law (2007).

Kristin Munday grew up in Melbourne lacking any ambition to play football but with an abiding passion for photography.

Kathie Muir has a lifelong interest in textiles and women's art. A former academic at the University of Adelaide, she developed a subject on fashion, work and personal identity at a time when few people were considering labour practices and sustainability in the fashion industry. Other research interests include social movements and their use of social media. She is the...

Nick Mount has received numerous awards, including the Bavarian State Prize in Germany, an Australia Council Fellowship, and the Arts SA Triennial Project Grant.

Stephen Mould is a Sydney-based conductor, arts administrator and writer. He is Head of Music at Opera Australia, and lives in Sydney.

Geoffrey Morlet is an ophthalmologist who has recently turned to writing. His first novel, The Journey, was published in the UK in 2002 and published in Australia by Lythrum Press in 2004.

George Morgan is a senior lecturer at the School of Humanities/Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.

Dr Damon Moon has worked as a writer, curator, researcher, lecturer and maker across various areas of the arts, from contemporary Asian art to the crafts. He has published extensively on the history of Australian ceramics, completing a PhD on the impact of Bernard Leach’s seminal 1940 text ‘A Potter’s Book’ on the development of the Australian crafts movement in its...

Henry Miller, one of America’s most controversial authors, was born in New York in 1891, and left for Europe in 1930. His autobiographical novel Tropic of Cancer, a frank account of an artist’s adventures in Paris, was published with the support of his lover Anais Nin but banned for decades in Britain and the USA. His other works include Tropic of...

Rachael Mead lives on a property in the Adelaide Hills with her husband, animals and an unwieldy collection of op shop overcoats. Her poetry has been published in journals such as Meanjin, Westerly, Going Down Swinging and the Australian Poetry Members Anthology. In 2011 she was a Friendly Street mentored poet with Mike Ladd and she spent...

Philip Mead is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia and the author of Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry (2009). He has taught Australian literature in universities in Australia, Germany, China and the US.

Francis McWhannell is an independent writer and curator from Aotearoa New Zealand. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Museums and Cultural Heritage from the University of Auckland. He has contributed to various publications, including Painting: A Transitive Space (2017) and Dynamo Hum (2017).

Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch have spent a decade prying loose the very best of Australian fantastic fiction available. Forever Shores follows in the wake of their hugely successful Alien Shores.

Jim McLoughlin was born in Liverpool in 1921. He joined the Royal Navy at 17, serving aboard the battleship HMS Valiant during the Norwegian and Mediterranean campaigns. In 1955 Jim emigrated to South Australia, where he and his wife Dorothy raised five children.

Catherine McKinnon is an award-winning playwright and novelist. She studied theatre performance and cinema at Flinders University. Her play Tilt was selected for the 2010 National Playwriting Festival, and As I Lay Dreaming won the 2010 Mitch Matthews Award. Her short stories, reviews and articles have appeared in Transnational Literature,...

Jenna McKenzie is an arts writer based in Adelaide, South Australia. She writes widely on contemporary art for national publications such as the Age, Art Monthly Australia, Artlink, and the Art Gallery of South Australia, and is a regular contributor of catalogue essays for artists, artist-run-spaces, and independent commercial galleries.

Louise McKenna was born in the United Kingdom where she studied at the University of Nottingham and the University of Leeds, graduating with a Joint Honours degree in English and French. Louise was a finalist in the inaugural Cricket Poetry Award 2009. Her first collection of poetry, A Lesson in Being Mortal, was published in Friendly Street New Poets 15 by...

Iain McIntyre is an author, radio presenter and musician who has previously written and contributed to a number of books and publications about Australian and overseas music, history and popular culture.

Kent McCormack is an artist and illustrator.

Oliver Mayo is a research fellow in CSIRO, Australia's national research organisation, and an adjunct professor of biometry in the University of Adelaide. Together and separately, they have contributed to quantitative and population genetics with applications in plant and animal breeding and human genetics.

Alan Mayne holds a ResearchSA Chair at the University of South Australia, where he is Professor of Social History in the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, and the Hawke Research Institute. He holds a PhD (1980) from the Australian National University and worked until 2005 at the University of Melbourne. He has also been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in...

Peter May is one of Australia's eminent viticultural researchers. Educated in Switzerland (Ing. Agr.,Dr Sc. Tech.) he had a distinguished career working with CSIRO Division of Horticulture. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Burgundy, Dijon, France and Malang, Indonesia, and is at present Visiting Research Fellow, the University of Adelaide. Dr May was the...

Granville Allen Mawer is the author of Fast Company, the biography of the clipper ship Walter Hood (Plainwords Press, 1994), Most Perfectly Safe, about the convict shipwrecks of 1833-42 (Allen & Unwin, 1997) and Ahab's Trade, on South Sea whaling (Allen & Unwin, 1999), the last of which was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's History...

Janet Maughan is a lawyer who works for Legal Aid in South Australia. She is as passionate about access to justice as she is about Aboriginal Art.

Simone G Matthews loves reading and writing poetry, fiction, biography and across the genre explorations. She is writing her first novel as part of her PhD studies under the supervision and mentorship of Marion May Campbell.

Penny Matthews has written more than thirty books for children, as well as books on subjects as diverse as Australian colonial cookery and the novels of Thomas Hardy. Country life has often featured in her work, most notably in A Year on Our Farm, the Children's Book Council of Australia's 2003 Book of the Year: Early Childhood.

Iola Mathews OAM (nee Hack) is the great-great-granddaughter of John Barton Hack. She has a degree in history from Melbourne University and was a journalist with the Age newspaper for many years and the author of How to Use the Media in Australia (Penguin, 1991). She later worked at the Australian Council for Trade Unions as an industrial officer and...

Robert Martin is an historian who lives in Adelaide.

Rebecca Martin completed a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in history) and Laws (Hons) with a Diploma of Languages in German at the University of Adelaide in 2013. Rebecca currently works as an educator in the museum sector in Canberra and her interests include social history, military history and international law.

Kristin Martin is a poet, primary school teacher and the author of Banjo Frog's Concert Spectacular (Wakefield Press), To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme? (Glimmer Press) and a book of poetry, Paint the Sky (Ginninderra Press, 2016). She lives in Adelaide, South Australia, with her family, four frogs, three turtles and a lizard named Ash.

Jacqueline Manuel is Associate Professor in English education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. Jackie has co-authored/edited numerous books in the field of English education.

Tim Maltin has been studying the Titanic for 25 years. Tim works in London and lives in Wiltshire, where he is working on his magnum opus, the definitive account of what actually happened on that night.

In their travels to Japan since 1985 to visit gardens, Alison Main and Newell Platten have developed a strong interest in Japanese culture. Each has pursued an award-winning career in architecture. Alison Main is a painter and a digital media artist. Married, Alison and Newell live in Adelaide.

Susan Magarey AM, FASSA, PhD, has degrees in English Literature and History from Adelaide University and the Australian National University. She was Director of the Research Centre for Women's Studies at Adelaide University where she is now Professor Emerita in History. She is the author of two monographs - the prize-winning biography of Catherine Helen Spence,...

The late Rod Maclean was an author, journalist and television reporter. Rod wrote the Aussie novel Eric and Ian Get a Life and a biography of Griselda Sprigg, an outback pioneer, Dune Is a Four-letter Word. He recorded the last year of his life in the memoir Wallaby.

Emeritus Professor Alison Mackinnon, AM, was Foundation Director of the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia. Her research and writing spans gender and history, and issues of equity in education for girls and marginalized young people.

Gay Lynch has published five stories for Macmillan Education. Cleanskin is her first novel for adults.

Ulla-Lena Lundberg is a well-known Finnish-Sweden author living in Finland. She has written both fiction and fact and is best known for her award-winning novels, which include a trilogy on Aland shipping and Ice, set on the remote island of Kokar where she was born.

Federico Garcia Lorca’s numerous books include Wilkes and Liberty, The Crowd in the French Revolution and, with Eric Hobsbawm, Captain Swing.

Dr Dymphna Lonergan is a retired academic from Flinders University (Adelaide, South Australia) with adjunct status. She has continued her ongoing interest in the Irish language and Irish Australia history since retirement. She is a member of the editorial collective for the online Irish Australian magazine Tintean.

Peter Lloyd has had work published in Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

Melissa Little tragically lost her young sons Koda (4) and Hunter (9 months) in early 2016. In the wake of her loss, she watched Koda’s young friends struggle to process what had happened. ‘Their bewilderment motivated me to write a book,’ says Melissa. ‘I hoped to give them an opportunity to think about their grief, and talk about it if they wanted. It is not...

Khai Liew is a South Australian based furniture designer. He started his career selling and restoring antique furniture, and in 1997 opened Khai Liew Designs, a furniture showroom and workshop. He has received numerous awards for his furniture designs, and has an extensive national and international clientele.

Tony Lewis is a freelance photographer with a passion for capturing food in all its natural beauty.

Peter Lewis is a numismatists specialising in coins relating to the early history of Christianity. Dr Lewis is an honours graduate in Divinity from the University of London and he brings this scholarly expertise to bear on the subject of Saint Paul.

Carolyn Leach is a research fellow in the discipline of genetics in the University of Adelaide.

Lindl Lawton is Senior Curator at the South Australian Maritime Museum.

Kay Lawrence, AM, was the first woman appointed to head the School of Art at the University of South Australia. She has an international profile as a tapestry weaver and her work is held in many public collections in Australia and overseas. She lives in the Adelaide Hills.

Terry Lavender is the author of several books including Strolling South Australia with Derek Whitelock, and The Heysen Trail: A walker's guide, volumes 1 and 2, all by Bookends Books. He is also a well-known contributor to radio and a well-known speaker to walking and conservation groups.

Steve Lancaster was born in the United Kingdom and read Ancient and Modern History at Oxford University. He worked as a video producer and then publisher for 15 years, writing a number of books and digital texts, mainly on historical and political themes, before moving to Adelaide in 2006. Active in the Peace and Green movements in the UK, he has continued to campaign on...

Josephine Laffin is a Christian historian and the author of The Duffer’s Guide to Theology, The Duffer’s Guide to the Old Testament, The Duffer’s Guide to the Medieval Church, and The Duffer’s Guide to the Early Church. Dr Laffin has a Bachelor of Theology degree from Flinders University and a Master of Arts and Doctorate in...

Evelyn de Lacy was a Western Australian freestyle swimmer who competed at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. For Australian swimming, the Games were mired in controversy. Evelyn recorded her experiences in journals that reveal the days and weeks before competition, the drama of swimming for your country at the highest level, and the changing times.

Tracey Korsten has been short-listed for the HQ/Varuna Short Story Competition, has worked on the publications Through the Opera Glass and Movers and Shakers and has been published in the Friendly Street anthology for 2009. She is a public speaker, marriage celebrant, actor and director and is currently working on a screenplay, a book and a poetry...

Professor Tina Koch (RN, PhD) holds a joint appointment between Flinders University and the Royal District Nursing Service.

Joanne Knott studied science at university, lives in Adelaide, and has successfully exhibited her work in Adelaide and Melbourne. She illustrated Plane Tree Drive by Lynette Washington.

Graeme Kinross-Smith is a writer of long standing in the Australian literary scene and is best known for his widely published poetry and short fiction.

Teri Louise Kelly lives in Adelaide, South Australia, with her partner Mel Kelly, where together they find yet more ways to defy convention.

Franz Kempf as an artist, craftsman and teacher has a deep involvement with the arts and community. He has been associated with Jacob Pins in Israel, Oscar Kaskoschka in Europe and workshops all over Europe and Australia. A Fellow of the Royal Society (London) and the Graphic Society (USA), in 2003 he was awarded the Order of Australia for his services to the arts.

Tony Kanellos is Cultural Collections Manager and Curator of the Santos Museum of Economic Botany. Since joining the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide in 2004, Tony has been involved in the restoration and refurbishment of the Museum of Economic Botany, the publication of its story and its collection, and the revival of the exhibition program. He was also the coordinator of the...

Anna Jug is Associate Curator at Carrick Hill. Anna has worked on a number of Carrick Hill's exhibitions including Endless Pleasure: The art of gardens and gardening as well as Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940-2011.

Nicholas Jose’s books include the acclaimed novels Paper Nautilus, The Rose Crossing, The Custodians, The Red Thread and Original Face, as well as the non-fictional works Chinese Whispers: Cultural Essays and Black Sheep: Journey to Borroloola. He held the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide...

Jill Jones won the Mary Gilmore Award for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star (Hazard Press). Her fourth book, Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. Her work has been widely published in Australia as well as in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain, France, the Czech Republic and India....

Helen Jones began researching women's history in the early 1950s. She taught for more than twenty years at tertiary level, and was a member of the South Australian working party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Her book Nothing Seemed Impossible: Women’s education and social change in South Australia 1875-1915 was published in 1985, and the...

Gareth Roi Jones is the nom de plume of Glen R Johns. Glen R has been a writer for 20 sommit years. Primarily as a playwright working with young people, but he's always dabbled in the poetical arts. He also has two unpublished children’s novels he would like to remove the prefix from ... & dozens more waiting to get out.

Jill Jolliffe began her career as a journalist in 1975 covering the Indonesian takeover of Portuguese Timor for Reuters newsagency. Between 1978 and 1998 she was based in Portugal, freelancing for a range of media companies, including the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Eastern Express, the BBC, the Age and The Christian Science...

Donald Leslie Johnson has written extensively for books and journals on Australian and American architectural history and American city planning history and is completing research on Romanesque architecture and on the education of Frank Lloyd Wright. He attended Louis I. Kahn's masterclass of 1960 at the University of Pennsylvania and was a member of the American...

David Jellie commenced his career as a structural engineer with the Country Roads Board of Victoria in 1961. David participated in the development of Australian design codes and has written many technical papers and books - mainly relating to bridge design and construction and safety in construction. He was an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University.

Antony Jeffrey, AM has been an arts professional for over 30 years and lives in Sydney.

Charlotte Jay was born Geraldine Mary Jay in 1919 in Adelaide, where she died in 1996. She spent decades travelling, living and writing in England, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific, and worked as an oriental art dealer. She received international acclaim early, when her thriller Beat Not the Bones, published under the name Charlotte Jay, won the...

Purnendra Jain is Professor in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide. Author and editor of 12 books and numerous scholarly articles on contemporary Asian politics and foreign policy issues, his latest co-edited books are Japan in Decline: Fact or fiction?, Japanese Politics Today: From karaoke to kabuki democracy and Japan’s Strategic...

Patricia Irvine lives on Adelaide's Le Fevre Peninsula. She has performed on Radio Adelaide 'Writers' Radio' and on ABC 891. A number of her poems have been broadcast on ABC Radio National's PoeticA.

Roger Irvine lives on the banks of the River Torrens in Campbelltown, only a short distance from Charles Campbell's original homestead. He grew up on a farm in the south-east of South Australia. A year as an exchange student led to a degree in Asian studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, followed by over three decades in the commonwealth public service....

Curator and author Jane Hylton has written extensively on Australian art and has curated numerous exhibitions. In 2000 she left the position of Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia to become a freelance consultant.

Roger Hutchinson is an award-winning author and journalist who has written for BBC Radio, The Scotsman, The Guardian, The Herald and the Literary Review. He joined the West Highland Free Press in 1977and is still attached to it as a columnist.

Andrew Hunter worked as General Manager (China Engagement) at Port Adelaide Football Club between 2015 and 2020. He holds a Master of Philosophy (Asian Studies) from The University of Adelaide. A professional athlete and national team representative in indoor volleyball, he has written over 100 opinion pieces for the Adelaide Review, InDaily,...

Nigel Hunt lives in Adelaide and has been at the forefront of police and crime reporting in South Australia for almost 30 years.

Avon Hudson is a long-time campaigner for a just solution to the human problems caused by the British atomic bomb tests. He served at Maralinga during some of the disastrous Minor Trials, he has intimate first-hand knowledge of the effects of radiation on human health.

Matt Howard has been in marketing and publicity in different large publishing firms for the past 10 years and now works for Who Weekly magazine. This is his first novel.

Susan Hosking is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Adelaide. Her particular interests are contemporary Australian fiction, sources of historical fiction and literature that represents interactions between Indigenous and European cultures. She has published on Katharine Susannah Prichard, Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson), Archie Weller, South Australian Indigenous...

Rick Hosking is an Associate Professor in English, Creative Writing, and Australian Studies at Flinders University where he teaches Australian Studies, colonial literary studies, historical fiction and travel writing. He co-authored with Robert Foster and Amanda Nettelbeck Fatal Collisions: the South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory.

Corrie Hosking grew up in the Adelaide Hills, where she now lives with her partner, Adam, daughter, Ada, dog, chooks and geese. Corrie's short stories appear in Iron Lace, Working with the Stories of Women's Lives and Feast. She is completing work for a PhD in Creative Writing and a Bachelor of Social Work degree, and is looking forward to the...

Jeff Hopkins-Weise is a professional historian with a strong interest and background in Australian, New Zealand and Pacific history.

Nigel Hopkins is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the Australian food and wine industry for the past 30 years.

Dr Barbara Hill is a Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst where she has dedicated her career to social justice and reconciliation through learning and teaching. Since 1993 she has taught subjects in English literature, Australian literature, existential literature, creative writing, sociology and professional writing. Her other areas of interest include...

Alison Higgs is a Kangaroo Island resident.

Roger Higgins was born in Queensland and has lived and worked in Chile, Papua New Guinea, Scotland and the United States of America, as well as several locations in Australia. Roger is a civil engineer with a MSc from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from the University of New South Wales.

Professor Maciej Henneberg, PhD, DSc, currently holds the Wood Jones Chair of Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. His main research interests are in past, present and future human evolution, described in over 231 papers and five monographs.

Stewart Henderson was born in Scotland in 1956, and arrived in Australia in 1962, his parents following soon afterwards. He left school at fifteen, working at a variety of jobs, and avoiding working at many more. Stewart spent a decade at university in the late eighties to early nineties, obtaining a degree in French and honours degree in English. He is currently a ward of...

Richard Heathcote resides in Adelaide and is a former director of Carrick Hill. His broad experience within the fields of regional arts and historic houses and gardens includes the establishment of the Australian Exhibitions Touring Agency and the management of Rippon Lea Historic House and Garden in Victoria.

Christopher Heathcote, one of Australia's foremost art critics, has written extensively on a broad range of creators - from Arthur Boyd and Edvard Munch to Virginia Woolf and Michelangelo Antonioni. An authority in twentieth-century culture, he is the author of several books including the highly acclaimed Inside the Art Market: Australia's galleries 1956-1976, as...

Syd Harrex taught literature at Flinders University for 40 years and was the founder of the Centre for Research in New Literatures in English.

Ian Hansen grew up in Adelaide and Melbourne during the 1930s and 40s. He became a teacher during the 1950s, working both in Australia and England with his wife, Dorothy. Ian Hansen has three children and seven grandchildren and now lives in Melbourne.

Tony Hanning is an internationally recognised glass artist, whose work is represented in all State and national collections in Australia, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is a former director of Latrobe Regional Gallery, and a former mayor of Latrobe City. He has a PhD and is a former lecturer in Art and Design. He has served on the Visual Arts Board of the...

Meg Hale is a former social worker and government investigator who lost a child to adoption in South Australia in 1968. Working as ARMS’s first social worker in the 1980s she helped South Australia pass the first laws in the English-speaking world giving mothers equal rights to apply for identifying information about their lost family members. Meg continues her work as an...

Tony Griffiths was educated at Adelaide and Cambridge Universities. He has taught Australian and Scandinavian history for a quarter of a century at universities in Australia, Japan and Europe.

After three years with the Royal Navy, Bill Guy has spent a working lifetime in journalism. Born in Liverpool, England, he gained his early newspaper experience in four English counties before graduating to the national Daily Express where he stayed for 13 years. In 1967 he emigrated with his wife and three children to Australia and was for many years foreign editor...

Graham Greenwood has worked as a rural journalist for most of his life, and is now director to the board of the Mt Gambier based Border Watch newspaper.

Isobel Grave is Cassamarca lecturer in Italian language and literature at the University of South Australia. She is a NAATI qualified professional translator and interpreter and a published translator of poetry from Italian into English.

Michael Graham-Stewart specialises in gathering up colonial photographs in order to reconstruct the complex stories that such materials encode. His particular interest is in exploring the ways in which photography operates not only as an instrument of oppression, but also as a means of connecting with people of the past. Michael has published several books on photography,...

Steve Gower was Director of the Australian War Memorial between 1996 and 2012. He is a Duntroon graduate and Vietnam veteran who gained an Honours degree in Engineering from the University of Adelaide, followed by a Masters degree by research. He spent 37 years in the Australian Army, attaining the rank of major general before resigning to become the ninth Director of the...

Hendrik Gout is an award-winning Australian journalist. He's reported and produced television news and current affairs - including the ABC's flagship 7.30 Report - and been a newspaper and magazine editor.

Professor Paul Gough is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice President at RMIT College of Design and Social Context in Melbourne, Victoria. He is author of Stanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere.

Ted Gott is Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria. He is co-author of Modern Britain 1900-1960: Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand Collections.

Peter Goldsworthy has won literary awards across a wide range of genres. His 1995 novel Wish is in the Text Classics series, and his 1989 novel Maestro is an Angus & Robertson Australian Classic.

Anna Goldsworthy was awarded Newcomer of the Year at the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards for her debut memoir, Piano Lessons, which was released in Australia and internationally. Other literary publications include the memoir Welcome to Your New Life, the Quarterly Essay Unfinished Business: Sex, freedom and misogyny, and the novel...

Jane Turner Goldsmith is a psychologist and former panel member of the Australians Aiding Children Adoption Agency in South Australia. Jane has written short stories, poetry, novels and non-fiction. Her novel Poinciana was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.

Jill Golden is an author and university lecturer based in Adelaide.

Professor Diana Glenn is Dean, School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, and teaches in the Department of Italian.

Dr Thomas Girgensohn is a former Managing Partner of the Boston Consulting Group and an Australian company director with experience in a range of industries. He was educated in Germany with an MBA from Saarbrucken and a PhD in business from the University of Munich. Thomas has been collecting Australian wine for nearly 30 years, closely observing and following developments...

Trevor Gill is a former daily columnist, sporting and feature writer with News Limited in Australia. He was also a correspondent in England and Sri Lanka and worked on assignments in New Zealand and Japan. He served as a Board Member of Falie Project Limited, the body responsible for maintaining South Australia’s last surviving ketch as a tourism and educational resource....

R.M. Gibbs, born and educated in Adelaide, taught for some years in Adelaide and Pennsylvania. Consultant in History to the South Australian Education Department for ten years, he wrote variously about South Australian and Australian history, and served as first president of the Historical Society of South Australia. He lived in Adelaide, and passed away in 2015.

Mary Geyer was employed by the Migration Museum to research and write Behind the Wall after numerous visitor queries about the Destitute Asylum, which used to be in the same location. Mary Geyer lives in Adelaide.

Friedrich Gerstacker was born in Hamburg in 1816. Inspired by the writing of Daniel Defoe, he set off for America in 1837 intending to become a farmer, and sent his mother a diary of his adventures. He returned to Germany in 1843 to discover that his mother had been publishing his diaries in a periodical to great popularity, and so his career as a best-selling writer began....

Sally van Gent was born in England, where she trained as a teacher at Bretton Hall College for Music, Art and Drama. She has lived in twenty houses across the globe, but with handmade rugs, Arabian coffee pots and an assortment of dogs, each one became home. She finally settled on ten acres in the Bendigo bush.

Tom Gara has been a professional historian for over twenty-five years specialising in Aboriginal history.

Mary-Anne Gale is a research fellow at the University of South Australia. She has written many articles and chapters for academic publications on Aboriginal education issues, and is the author of the book Dhangum Djorra'wuy Dhawu: A history of writing in Aboriginal languages. Her PhD, 'Poor Bugger Whitefella Got no Dreaming', focused on the representation of...

Dr Peter Gale is a researcher and lecturer at the University of South Australia in the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research. He has published in academic journals and edited publications on a wide range of topics, including reconciliation, immigration, multiculturalism, asylum seekers policy, racism, Australian politics and the media. His first book on...

Cameron Fuller was born on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. He has lived in Brisbane, Sydney and Cairns, but keeps returning to Adelaide, where he has done most of his living and writing. Having studied at five universities in three states, he holds a degree at the University of Queensland and has recently completed Honours in Professional Writing and...

Professor Adrian Franklin is a UK-trained social anthropologist and has held professorial positions in the the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. His research interests include: the sociology of art; museums and museum innovation; art and cultural museums; art publics; cultural ecology; design; urban studies; the sociology of travel and tourism; the social bond;...

Stephen Fox has worked as Art Advisor to Buku-Larrngay Arts at Yirrkala, Northern Territory, as Director of 24HR Art, the NT Centre for Contemporary Art, and since July 1997 as Director of Maruku Arts at Uluru. Stephen still makes art, has run many workshops, and has been friends with Ian Abdulla since 1988.

Robert Foster is an Associate Professor in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide. Robert works especially in the area of Australian and comparative Indigenous History.

Jean Fornasiero is Emeritus Professor of French Studies at the University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Sonia Floriani is Assistant Professor at the University of Calabria (Italy), where she teaches ‘Sociology of Culture’ and ‘Comparative Cultures’. She is a member of the Doctoral School A.G. Frank in ‘Knowledge and Innovations for Development’ and has carried out research in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Her present interests of study are in the...

Cassie Flanagan Willanski is a writer and environmentalist. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in publications including Meanjin, and she received the SA Independent Arts Foundation Scholarship for Creative Writing in 2001, a Varuna Retreat Fellow­ship in 2011 and the Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award for Here Where We Live in 2014....

Margaret Fensom arrived in Adelaide from London by steamship in 1947 at the age of four, and has lived here ever since. She is widowed and has two adult daughters and three grandchildren. She completed a BA and, many years later, an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. Margaret lives in a cottage in Norwood.

Andrew Faulkner is a reporter in the Australian’s Adelaide Bureau. He previously worked with News Ltd’s Messenger Newspapers for more than 11 years, including three as chief-of-staff, and before that with the Mount Barker Courier and the Katherine Times.

Steve Evans is an Adelaide-based writer and editor, and teaches creative writing.

Sandra Evans is a Queensland-based psychologist and the mother of Tahlia, who is featured in Eight Seasons. This is her first book.

Pamela Eriksson, nee Bourne in 1905, grew up in South Africa and was educated in England. As a young journalist she took a passage on the Herzogin Cecilie from Australia to England in 1934. She married the captain, Sven Eriksson, and wrote a book, The Duchess, on her voyages on the ship. Pamela Eriksson died in Aland in 1984. Pamela's daughter Freya Darby...

Maggie Emmett arrived in Australia in 1967, on the last boat through the Suez Canal during that Middle East War. She was educated at Grammar School in Berkshire, England. In her past working lives she was an Intensive Care Sister, a Casualty RN, and an academic at the Uni of Adelaide. Now, she runs an editing & communications business. She pays her social rent working on the...

Adam Dutkiewicz is the art critic for The Independent Weekly. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of South Australia in 2001 and has worked as an art critic for the Advertiser, Business Review Weekly and Art Monthly Australia online. He was a contributing author for the monograph Franz Kempf: Thinking on paper and author...

Dr Chris Durrant is an astrophysicist with a keen interest in the history of South Australia. He was born in England and worked at Cambridge University and in Freiberg, Germany, before coming to Australia in 1983. He is a former head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Sydney University and an author of several books on astrophysics. Since retirement he has...

Cal Durrant is Associate Professor in English Curriculum and Literacy and Director of the Literacy Research Hub at ACU in Sydney; he is also the commissioning editor for the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) and editor of AATE’s highly acclaimed Interface series. He was a member of the national research team that reported to DEETYA on the ways...

Roger Dunlop has had two vocations during his working life, medicine and farming. After serving as an army doctor with the Australian occupation forces in Japan after World War II, he practised medicine for a further 61 years in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. He began farming in 1959, firstly in the Hawkesbury area, then at Walcha in New England, and later on the East Cape of...

Nick Dry graduated with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Viticulture) from the University of Adelaide in December 2000. He was employed by the Orlando Wyndham Group as a viticulturalist and spent time based in Padthaway and the Riverland. After spending seven months travelling, which included a vintage in the Franken region of Germany and visiting wine regions in Spain...

Debra J. Drake lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where she is working on her next book.

Sir Alick Downer, who died in 1981, was Australia's Minister for Immigration, then Australian High Commissioner in London.

Kate Douglas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Flinders University specialising in life writing, contemporary literary studies, postcolonial literatures, Australian Studies, and literary/cultural theory. Her most recent publications are Trauma Texts (with Professor Gillian Whitlock; Routledge 2009) and Contesting Childhood: Autobiography,...

Chris Doudle is the founder and managing director of one of South Australia's leading corporate communications firms, Strategic Public Relations.

Brenton Doecke is Emeritus Professor at Deakin University. He has written extensively on English curriculum and pedagogy.

Kate Dellar-Evans was an Adelaide-based writer and editor, and taught creative writing. She passed away in 2016.

Richard Davis is an internationally acclaimed writer specialising in biographies. He's written a series devoted to the lives of famous Australian musicians, including Close to the Flame: The life of Stuart Challender and Wotan's Daughter: The life of Marjorie Lawrence, published by Wakefield Press, as well as biographies of pianists Geoffrey Parsons and...

Larissa McLean Davies is Program Coordinator for the Master of Teaching (Secondary), and Lecturer in English and Literacy Education in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. Larissa’s research interests, following on from her PhD and classroom experience, are in the areas of national literatures and women’s writing.

James Darling is best-known for his continuing series Malleefowl Nests; large-scale installations of the extraordinary nests made by the bird that inhabits the south-eastern Australian region where his property lies. Darling is also a photographer, writer and artist of many hues, as well as a community activist, farmland conservationist, salt-land agriculturalist...

Washima Che Dan is a senior lecturer with the Department of English of Universiti Putra Malaysia where she teaches sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and language in literature. Her research interests are in the interconnections between language, ideology and culture, and in the problematics of language and literature particularly within the contexts of a...

Judy Dally has published three collections of poetry, has been published in various magazines and newspapers and in the last 23 editions of the Friendly Street Reader. In 2011 she won the John Bray Roman Poetry Prize with Whoever Said of Shane Warne. Judy has a Master of Arts in Literature from Deakin University and has previously tutored in Australian Literature...

Tansy Curtin is the Curatorial Manager at Bendigo Art Gallery. She holds a Masters in Art History from the University of Adelaide. Tansy inherited the gardening gene from her mother, although she also loves growing edible plants.

Penelope Curtin is a freelance editor who works mainly in the area of art publications. Her great loves in life have been the gardens she has established and Edwin, Alice, Rupert and Rosey, some of whom are grandchildren, the others Italian Greyhounds.

Roger Cross and his wife Jennifer moved to the mid north of South Australia on his retirement from the University of Melbourne. As a senior lecturer he was involved in the science education programmes at the University. His research interest into the nature and social aspects of science led to the publication of the highly successful book Fallout: Hedley Marston and...

Robert Cranny was born in Ireland and moved to the United States in 1954, when he was eighteen. He lives in New York City.

Peter Cox is a dreamer and a successful global entrepreneur. He is a much sought after motivational speaker on leadership principles who annually speaks to tens of thousands of dreamers on almost every continent.

Owen Covick is Associate Professor in the School of Business Economics at Flinders University, Adelaide, and Deputy Head of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He was economic advisor to a series of senior Cabinet Economics Ministers in the Federal Government from 1986 to 1996. A member of academic staff at Flinders University since 1973, he has been involved in the activities...

Rosemary Counter studied English Literature at the University of Toronto, where she learned a keen sense of irony and how to write a kick-ass paper without reading the book. Her writing has been featured in Elle Canada, Chatelaine and The Globe and Mail.

Peter Couche lives in Adelaide with his wife, Simona. He has three adult daughters, Rebecca, Sarah and Sophie.

Victoria Cosford completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in languages, including Italian, and has taught Italian cooking for more than twenty years. She now lives in Byron Bay and writes a popular weekly food column for the Byron Shire Echo, where she is employed as a journalist.

Evelyn Conlon is a novelist, short-story writer and radio essayist. Born in Ireland, she lived in Australia for a number of years. Her last novel Skin of Dreams was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year. The title story of her collection Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour was performed at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival. She is a member of Aosdana, the...

Brought up in country South Australia, Lawrie Colliver has been following the game since the summer World Series Cricket started, in 1977-78. He went on to play grade cricket at Tea Tree Gully, then to work as a freelance cricket statistician for Fox Sports (where he is currently head cricket statistician), Macquarie Radio and Network Ten. Lawrie was also a credited...

Carolyn Collins is a research fellow in the University of Adelaide's history department. Her interests include twentieth-century Australian history, women's history and oral history. Her PhD thesis, which combined all three, was awarded the university's Doctoral Research Medal. She has also been a journalist, magazine columnist, and communications manager.

Vincenzo Cerami (1940-2013) is not just highly acclaimed as a novelist and nonfiction writer, but is also famous for his contribution to Italian cinema as the screenwriter of celebrated films such as the 1997 production La vita e bella (Life is beautiful), which he co-authored with Roberto Benigni. Un borghese piccolo piccolo (A Very...

Nigel Cawthorne has written, contributed to and edited more than sixty books on subjects as diverse as skiing, finance, sex, war, art, engineering, history and American football. His work has appeared in over 150 newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic.

William Anderson Cawthorne was an artist, author and schoolmaster. He recorded his observations of how Adelaide had been affected by the rush to Victoria for gold, in his diary from 1849-1859 held in the State Library of NSW Manuscripts Collection. The Kangaroo Islanders was originally published in serialised format, from 25 January to 25 December 1865.

Czenya Cavouras' inspiration to write Rainbow Bird came from conversations with her grandfather about his trips to Port Augusta. She believes it will strike a chord with readers of all ages and challenge them to imagine themselves in a similar situation and how they might respond.

Brian Castro was educated at the University of Sydney and has worked in Australian, French and Hong Kong universities as a teacher and writer. He is the author of ten novels and a volume of essays on writing and culture. His novels have won a number of state and national prizes including the Australian/Vogel literary award, The Age Fiction Prize, the National Book...

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 Painting the Islands Vermilion: Archibald Watson and the brig Carl, Eyes to the Future: Sketches of Australia and her neighbours in...

Anita Campbell was born in Auckland New Zealand and now lives in Perth with her husband and two young children, where she is completing a Bachelor of Nursing degree. She had a great time writing Good Friends Bring Salad and hopes that it can help others lose weight too.

Simon Cameron is a general practitioner who lives with his wife and three children in Glenelg, South Australia's historical heartland. He developed a passion for history from watching too many movies as a child, and became obsessed by it when he began reading all things historical. He realises that history rules our every move, and that understanding it is our only hope.

Robyn Cadwallader lives in Adelaide.

Andrew Burn is Reader in Education and New Media in the Faculty of Culture, and Pedagogy and the London Knowledge Lab at the Institute of Education, University of London, and Associate Director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. He has published work on many aspects of the media, including the use of horror films in schools, young people’s production...

David Burke, OAM, a former journalist with the Melbourne Herald Sun and the Sydney Morning Herald, has made six visits to Antarctica and written three books on the subject: Monday At McMurdo; Moments Of Terror: The Story Of Antarctic Aviation; and Voyage To The End Of The World: With Tales From The Great Ice Barrier. He and Dr P....

Marina Brown (RN, BN) is a research assistant at the Royal District Nursing Service, South Australia.

Marianne Broug was a musician. Her career was interrupted by severe anxiety, panic attacks and depression. She is now a writer.

Peggy Brock is Emeritus Professor of History at Edith Cowan University, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Sue Brindley is a Senior Lecturer in Education and coordinates the blended learning MEd (Researching Practice) at Cambridge University. Sue is researching the construction of knowledge within education.

Denis Brien has been a lover of cricket and its history since school. He is a former 1st-grade player, administrator and has coached state women's and junior men's teams. Denis worked as a teacher and student counsellor and became a cricket historian on retirement. His keen interest in South Australia's first international representative inspired him to write this history....

Erin Brannigan lectures in dance at the University of New South Wales and works in the fields of dance and film as an academic and curator. She was the founding Director of ReelDance in 1999 and has curated dance screen programs and exhibitions for Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003, Sydney Festival 2008 and international dance screen festivals. Brannigan writes on...

Mick Bradley's work bridges the gap between documentary and fine art photography. Mick was born in London and came to Australia as a boy. His images tell stories from our lives from the 1970s on. He honed his craft as a fine art printer, darkroom operator and photographer. Mick created his own niche in the history of South Australian photography, while his work appears in...

Eric Bouvet is a Senior Lecturer in French and currently Head of the Department of Language Studies at Flinders University (Australia). His main research interests lie in Applied Linguistics (reading in a foreign language) and in migration studies with a focus on the French in Australia. Eric is currently researching the specificities of post-World War II French migration to...

Heather Bonnin has written for education journals and has given a number of broadcasts on ABC Radio. Hours to Remember is her first book.

Rebecca Bond is a middle and senior school English teacher with fifteen years of experience. Her passion is to create learning opportunities that are engaging, meaningful and relevant for all English students. Rebecca lives in Brighton, South Australia.

Michelangelo Bolognese is a senior curator at the National Motor Museum, and has previously worked at the British Museum and London Fire Brigade Museum.

Ron Bolden is a numismatists specialising in coins relating to the early history of Christianity. His expertise is in the area of coin restoration and identification. His background is in industrial chemistry and he has held administrative positions in TAFE colleges.

Gerry Bloustien is an experienced film-maker and a lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of South Australia, where she teaches Screen Studied and Media Production. A hopeless musician, she is nevertheless a keen fan of a wide range of popular music and dance. Her doctoral thesis, focusing on gender and representation, explored the significance of popular music...

Jim Blake has lived in or within 500 metres of the City of Holdfast Bay for over 80 years. He has lived at Glenelg North, Marino and Brighton and went to St Leonards Primary School, Glenelg North, only one street from the Old Gum Tree. He has been a volunteer at the Holdfast Bay History Centre for twenty-one years. Jim became interested in the changing face of Holdfast Bay...

Dr Kate Blackmore is a historian. She lives in Tasmania.

David Black has been a member of Royal Adelaide Golf Club for 49 years. He joined the club committee in 1996 and was captain from 2008 to 2010.

Courtney Black is the youngest of the three poets. Born in Adelaide in 1980 she graduated with an Arts degree from the University of Adelaide and has mainly worked in public administration. She currently works for Domiciliary Care as a communications officer and edits their magazine.

Anne Black received the Dean's Commendation at the University of Adelaide for her PhD thesis on George Isaacs. Pendragon, based on her studies, is her first biography.

Peter Bishop is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia. He has researched, published and taught extensively around the topics of imagination, memory, hope, utopia and reconciliation.

Geoffrey Bishop studied Agricultural Science at The University of Adelaide, South Australia, graduating with a PhD in Horticulture/Plant Pathology. He worked for some years with the Department for Environment and Heritage in bushland management and currently works in natural resources management. Historical research has been an abiding hobby for many years. He has a special...

Anthony Bidulka is the author of Amuse Bouche and Flight of Aquavit, and is the winner of the Lambda Literary Award.

David Bennett has written and edited a number of books over the years. You guessed it; he is over 60 and aiming to live life to the full.

Virginia Baxter is Publisher and co-Managing Editor of RealTime, the national arts magazine, which she co-founded with Keith Gallasch in 1994. For Open City, Baxter co-wrote, produced and performed a number of significant multidisciplinary performance works at Performance Space, 1987-96. She was the Chair (1992-99) of Playworks, the National Women Writers' Workshop,...

Giselle Bastin is Head of English, Creative Writing, and Australian Studies at Flinders University. Her research interests include biographies and biopics of the British Royal Family, literary adaptations, and heritage film.

Peter Bassett was Dramaturg and Artistic Administrator for the 2004 Adelaide Ring. His writings on Wagner have included A Ring for the Millennium (1998, translated into Finnish 1999), The Nibelung’s Ring (2003, reprinted 2004), Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (2006), and Wagner's Parsifal (2008). He has lectured on Wagner’s...

Christopher Barnett began writing poetry aged 14. He participated deeply in the movement against the Vietnam war; that political commitment has remained. From the early seventies in Adelaide to France from 1990 to the present, he has conducted writing workshops and continues this work with communities in difficulty. His theatre work is performed in Europe, Australia and...

Mark Barber lives in Surrey, England with his wife and two children.

Jill Baker spent her childhood in Matebeleland, daughter of a man dedicated to African education and Principal of three leading African schools. Her adult life on a farm was brought to an abrupt end with the unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) from Britain in 1965 and she worked for the next 18 years as a journalist, news and documentary presenter and producer in...

Janine Baker was born in Queensland and lived childhood and adolescence as an itinerant in many parts of Australia and New Guinea. Her writing, with environmental and social themes, is strongly influenced by those experiences. Janine works as a non-affiliated marine scientist, and has a small, precious family.

Dr Ruth Bacchus ran a restaurant in a NSW country village before becoming a student and university medallist at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst. Her PhD explored ways for Western feminism to view satis (Hindu women who burn on the funeral pyres of their husbands). She now teaches literature, creative writing and politics at CSU. Her research interests are in the area of...

Dr Merilyn Annells (RN, PhD) is a research consultant who was contracted for this 'positive ageing' project.

Roy Ananda is a South Australian artist, writer and educator. His objects, installations, drawings and texts variously celebrate popculture fandom, play, process and the very act of making.

Yvonne Allen has a background in education and information services. Her activism began with opposition to the Vietnam War and the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She was the first coordinator of Adelaide's Women's Studies Resource Centre in 1975, and was involved in the women's health movement. Now retired from the paid workforce,...

Eric Algra is an Adelaide-based freelance photographer. He particularly enjoys photographing landscapes and people. Eric was awarded the Ilford trophy (for the highest scoring print) and the Athol Shmith award (for black-and-white excellence) in the 1998 Australian Professional Photography Awards.

Murray Alfredson is a retired librarian and lecturer, and a former Buddhist Associate to the Multi-faith Chaplaincy at Flinders University. He graduated in German and History from the University of Melbourne and holds a research masters degree from the University of Wales. He began to write poetry in his undergraduate days and resumed in retirement. He has published poems...

Gaetano Aiello is the current Convenor and Treasurer of Friendly St Poets Inc., roles he has assumed for three years. He comes from a migrant Italian family and is a first generation Australian. Educated at Campbelltown High School and the University of Adelaide. He is a legal practitioner specialising in the areas of Trust, Wills and Disputed Estates. He runs every day and...

Tony Abbott was Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He was toppled by Malcolm Turnbull, whose argument as a republican Abbott debates in this book.

Geoffrey Abbott joined the Royal Air Force as an aero-engine fitter prior to the Second World War. He saw active service in North and East Africa, Somalia and India, post-war in the Suez Canal Zone, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Cyprus, Malta, Iraq and the Gulf States, and later served with NATO in France, Germany and Holland. After 35 years' service with the RAF he...

Christopher Hawkes was born in London, grew up in Cambridge-shire, and lived in Canada and Sweden before moving to Melbourne in 2000. He now lives in Footscray with his wife and son.

Born in Waratah, New South Wales on 4 February 1924, Raymond Bernard Ollis was the youngest of three sons.

Excited about ideas and experiences, Ray was larger than life to those lucky enough to come into his orbit. He played the piano beautifully, had an excellent singing voice, and was well-read in what his widow Margaret calls 'high-brow' literature. In December 1938, Ray Ollis...

Richard Zachariah spent many years of his youth in the Western District of Victoria, attending Hamilton College and moving among many of the families in the area. He has been a journalist, broadcaster and television host, becoming a well-known media identity, and is a lifelong racing fanatic. He has lived in London, Sydney and Melbourne, and now lives in South Australia with...

Ouyang Yu, now based in Melbourne, came to Australia in early 1991 and has published over 60 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and literary criticism in the English and Chinese languages. He also edits Australia’s only Chinese literary journal, Otherland. His noted books include his award-winning novels The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002)...

Cecile Yazbek was born into a Lebanese family in South Africa and studied social sciences at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. She was a voluntary community worker in Cape Town and migrated to Sydney in 1986 with her young family. While running Cecile’s Vegetarian Kitchen, a cooking school and catering service, she worked as a volunteer coordinator at Mercy Family.

Steve Yastrow is president of Yastrow Marketing, a consulting firm which has served clients such as McDonald's Corporation, Tom Peters Company, The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, Wyndham Hotels and Resorts and Reed Business Information.

Gus Worby is Emeritus Professor in the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.

A journalist for more than thirty years, Sandra Winter-Dewhirst spent ten years as the state director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in South Australia, overseeing a branch of 350 people across television, radio, and online production. With degrees in the arts and journalism from Adelaide University and the University of South Australia, she has sat on a range of...

Melbourne-based author Louise Wilson achieved First Class Honours in History in the old NSW Leaving Certificate but focused on mathematics at the University of Sydney and became the first woman in Australia to embark on a professional career in banking. After a multi-faceted career in finance and economics, she became intrigued by her own connection to a First Fleet settler...

Cheryl Williss grew up in the Adelaide beachside suburb of Brighton and now lives on a semi-rural property in the Adelaide Hills. Cheryl is sixth-generation South Australian with several families arriving in the first three years of colonial settlement. She has long held a keen interest in South Australia's social history, particularly women's history and the untold stories....

Angie Willcocks's area of interest and expertise is with new parents, helping them to adjust to life with children. The Sensible Sleep Solution and the COTSS techniques outlined in this book have been devised and successfully used for many years by Angie Willcocks in her psychology practice.

It's shite being Scottish, so the Trainspotting line goes. And for a long time Ali Whitelock thought that too. Originally from Glasgow, she now lives an hour south of Sydney. Sure, she lives a fortunate life. Sure, the sun shines just about every day. Sure, the beach is only a ten-minute stroll away. So why then is this not enough for her? What is it that makes her...

Jacqui Way is an award-winning photographer who has specialised in shooting food for over 17 years. From early childhood and the influences of a country grandmother, she has had an insatiable appetite for all things edible. Jacqui's career in photography has seen her express this passion through cookbooks and magazine editorials, her clients ranging from large food...

Storry Walton, AM, has been a producer, director, writer and manager in television, radio and the arts for over 50 years. He produced and directed many plays and drama series for ABC Television, including My Brother Jack and The Stranger, and social documentaries for the BBC in London, including Black Australians and A Share in Poseidon....

Lisa Walker writes novels for adults and young adults. She has also written an ABC Radio National play and been published in the Age, Griffith Review, Big Issue and the Review of Australian Fiction. Her recent novels include a young adult coming-of-age story, Paris Syndrome (HarperCollins, 2018), and a climate change comedy,...

James Waite Morgan was born in 1932 and grew up in Adelaide, attending St Peter’s College, followed by five years at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, Inns of Court. Returning home, he took up undeveloped land just over the Victorian border, and a first marriage produced three sons. Over thirty-five years he ran seven properties, including three thousand...

Valerie Volk is an award-winning Adelaide writer of poetry, verse novels, short stories, travel tales and longer fiction. A self-confessed voyeur of other people's lives, she is fascinated by the perennial question 'What if ...?'

Valerie loves all music - especially classical, opera and jazz - travel and cats, not necessarily in that order, but she loves writing most...

Debra Vinecombe lives in Adelaide, is married to Nigel and has a son, Joseph. She is the author of White Bread, A Slice of the 1950s and 1960s.

Born of an Australian mother and a French father, Jean-Francois Vernay grew up in New Caledonia's multicultural community which shares some of Australia's characteristics, including a convict heritage and a complex history of settlement. Using Peter Carey and Christopher Koch as a starting point, he has been researching Australian fiction for 20 years and has published...

Hossein Valamanesh draws on his Iranian heritage and experience of the Australian landscape and culture to create enigmatic artworks imbued with a disturbing beauty. Born in Tehran, he came to Australia in 1973 aged 24, and has become one of the country’s most significant contemporary artists.

Ray Tyndale started writing poetry and literary fiction in the 1990s when studying for her MA in Creative Writing with Tom Shapcott at the University of Adelaide and has continued to publish all manner of words while gaining her doctorate. There are always women in her writing, although they are rarely young. Ray is multi-skilled and has led many lives, all of which enrich...

Catherine Truman is an established artist working across the disciplines of art and science. She is co-founder and current partner of Gray Street Workshop - an internationally renowned artist-run workshop established in 1985 in Adelaide, South Australia, where she currently works and lives.

Long-time Alice Springs resident Stuart Traynor left the cultural melting pot of Wollongong for the Northern Territory on the eve of Cyclone Tracy seeking adventure, and finding it in abundance. After a spell in secondary schools and Aboriginal education, he 'won the lottery' in the 1980s, joining the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory, a vibrant and...

Peter Timms was born and educated in Melbourne and currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania. Between 1971 and 1988 he held curatorial positions in a number of public art galleries and museums, including Shepparton Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1984 for study in Europe, and an Australia...

Catch Tilly is a former high school teacher now working as an author and script writer. It was after hearing students comment how realistic and empowering they found Morgan and Stormin's story presented in a play on bullying that she decided to write Otherwise Known as Pig. She is married with five children and has an MA in creative writing.

Rebe Taylor was born in London and grew up in Adelaide. She has worked variously as an actor, stable hand, waitress, curator, historian and television presenter since the age of seven. She completed her Masters of Arts at the University of Melbourne in 1992 and her PhD at the Australian National University in 2004. She is an Australian Research Council Fellow at the...

Patricia Sumerling is an Adelaide-based professional historian who believes some of the unresolved tales she comes across in her work are ripe for unravelling and for imaginative reconstruction as distinctively South Australian stories.

Kate Strohm, an experienced health professional and journalist, is the founder and director of Siblings Australia. For over 14 years she has developed resources and services for families and practitioners, and become a sought-after speaker in Australia and overseas on the benefits of sibling support. Siblings has been published in the US and the UK and translated...

Anthony Steel has featured in Wakefield Press titles Painful in Daily Doses (2009) and Fifty (2017).

John Spoehr is Pro-Vice Chancellor - Reseach Impact at Flinders University. He is also Director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute. John leads a multi-discplinary team focusing on industry and workplace transformation in the context of technological change and innovation. He is a prominent local commentator on a wide range of political and economic issues....

A storyteller at heart, Katie Spain studied Professional Writing and Communication at the University of South Australia and Germany's University of Hohenheim. Her career took her to London, where she worked for digital media companies, was a columnist for the Australian Times newspaper and did a stint with the BBC's Russian Department. After returning to Adelaide...

Tony Shillitoe established his writing career with the popular Andrakis fantasy trilogy, and followed this success with The Last Wizard, which was nominated for the Aurealis Fantasy Award in 1995. Joy Ride is his first novel for older teenagers and adults.

Flip Shelton, writer, broadcaster and muesli maker, loves eating well and keeping fit. She is one of Kochie’s Angels on Sunrise, talks about food and TV on radio across Australia, and has written about travel and fitness for newspapers and magazines.

Janis Sheldrick is a lifelong resident of Melbourne who has always been strongly attracted to the landscapes of South Australia. She studied philosophy at the University of Melbourne, has a Graduate Diploma in Librarianship, and was awarded a PhD by Deakin University in 2000 for work on George Goyder and Goyder's Line. Working as an independent scholar, she completed the...

Thomas Shapcott is one of Australia's most highly regarded authors. He has published 10 novels, including Spirit Wrestlers, Theatre of Darkness, Magnum Opus Shines and Mona's Gift, and several non-fiction and poetry books. He has won numerous awards, including the Patrick White Award and an OA. In 2010 he was also shortlisted for the...

Paul Sendziuk is an Associate Professor in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide. Paul Sendziuk has particular expertise in the history of Australian immigration, public health and disease. He is the author of Learning to Trust: Australian responses to AIDS.

Bel Schenk is the author of the poetry collections Ambulances & Dreamers, Urban Squeeze and Every Time You Close Your Eyes. She lives in Melbourne.

Born in Adelaide, Wendy Scarfe graduated from Melbourne University and later trained as a secondary school teacher. For over four decades she has written poetry and novels in her own right, revealing her interest in history, political conflicts and social injustice. Her non-fiction works were written with her late husband, Allan Scarfe. Writing in Australian...

Alastair Sarre was born in Leigh Creek, a coal-mining town in the outback of South Australia. He studied forestry at Australian National University and worked for a mining company for a couple of years before returning to Canberra to complete a writing diploma. He has worked as a science editor and freelance writer specialising in forestry and spent time in Japan before...

Barbara Santich is a highly respected food writer, culinary historian and academic, with an abiding interest in French food, cooking and eating, currently focused on eighteenth-century Provence. Her book on Australian food history, Bold Palates: Australia's Gastronomic Heritage, was shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary...

Graham Rowlands has published poetry for over forty years. In the early 1970s he moved from Brisbane to Adelaide, where he taught literature and creative writing at tertiary level.

Fiona Roberts trained at the renowned Leiths School of Food and Wine in London, has a Masters in Gastronomy under her belt and cut her teeth in London and Sydney's highly competitive food publishing scene, including the iconic Australian Women's Weekly cookbook division. Fiona has worked with some of the industry's most influential food writers, such as Delia Smith,...

Allison Reynolds, MA (Gastronomy), is a culinary historian and a regular commentator on many aspects of food history. As gastronomer in residence at several South Australian establishments she researched the social and food history of early Adelaide. Allison's passion for tea, marmalade, food history and old cookery books continues unabated.

Cameron Raynes has worked in Perth, Meekatharra, Katherine, Darwin and Adelaide as a barman, welfare worker, anthropologist, historian, archivist,editor, academic and scriptwriter. He has a PhD on the moral subtext of Aboriginal oral history and writes whenever he can. He lives in Semaphore and is currently writing a script for a feature film based on his story, 'The Colour...

Stephanie Radok is an artist and writer. She has written widely on Australian art for over twenty years and her artwork is included in the collections of both state and national galleries and various private collections.

Judy Powell is an archaeologist and historian with a PhD in classical archaeology. Judy has worked on excavations in Cyprus, Greece, Jordan, and was a Fellow at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens. She has undertaken a range of Indigenous and historical archaeology projects in the course of over fifteen years in the cultural heritage and museum sector in...

Kathleen Petyarre was an Australian Aboriginal artist. Her art refers directly to her country and her Dreamings. Petyarre's paintings have occasionally been compared to the works of American Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, and even to those of J.M.W. Turner. She has won several awards and is considered one of the 'most collectable artists in...

Edmund Pegge has worked as an actor in England and Australia for five decades, travelling around the world to perform on stage, in film and television. He has worked with many famous actors and directors, and enjoyed numerous encounters and adventures. Also a cricket aficionado, he divides his time between England and his second home, Australia.

Journalist Abraham Maddison has worked in WA and SA newspapers since 1988, reporting and editing under his adoptive name, Derek Pedley. Under that name, he also published three true crime books, including two shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Crime Awards. He was a News Editor at the Advertiser in Adelaide and edited the paper's state and federal political coverage from...

Mandy Paul is the director of the Migration Museum, a museum of the History Trust of South Australia, and has previously worked in museums around Australia and in the United Kingdom. She has a long history of working in Aboriginal Australia, which began when she was native title historian at the Central Land Council, Alice Springs. She has postgraduate qualifications in...

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (PhD) is an academic-activist-author at Deakin University, sitting on the committees of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Network and the LGBTIQ Network. She is also an independent researcher and consultant; a founding member of the AGMC; sits on two Victoria Police Priorities Communities Reference Groups, the LGBTIQ Reference Group and the...

Poppy Nwosu is an author of young adult fiction. She has published three romantic contemporary novels: Making Friends with Alice Dyson (2019), Taking Down Evelyn Tait (2020), and Road Tripping with Pearl Nash (2021), and is the creator of the 2021 Wakefield Press YA anthology Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales (a project supported by...

Trevor Nottle is recognised internationally as an authority on old roses, cottage gardens and Mediterranean-climate gardening. He has published gardening books in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, with each book covering new ground, introducing fresh perspectives and bold ideas to an admiring readership. A popular speaker at international gardening events he uses his...

John Neylon is an Adelaide-based art writer and curator and formerly Head of Education, Art Gallery of South Australia. He is the author of numerous essays and several Wakefield Press books on South Australian artists, is a regular reviewer and columnist for the Adelaide Review and winner of the national 2014 Scarlett Award for writing on contemporary sculpture. He...

Valerie Munt is an Adjunct Lecturer in History in the School of International Studies at Flinders University. She was born and educated in Adelaide, graduating with an Honours Degree in History and a PhD from Flinders University and a Masters degree in Education from the University of South Australia. She was tutor in Modern European History at Flinders University from 2005...

Bruce Munday grew up in Geelong with a burning ambition to play football for his beloved Cats. When that was not going to happen, he completed a PhD in physics and then spent four years researching the magnetoelastic properties of antiferromagnetic materials. Alas, he found that his penchant for the esoteric cut him off from many of his friends. So he moved into teaching...

Rob Morrison has combined the two careers of academic and science writer and broadcaster. The author of 43 books, he was also the co-writer and presenter of Curiosity Show, a television program for young people that screened nationally in Australia and in 14 countries overseas, winning many awards. Rob has been an active conservationist, heading South Australia's...

Tom Moore was born in 1971 in Canberra, Australia. He graduated from Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, in 1994, trained in production techniques at JamFactory until 1997, and worked as Production Manager in the JamFactory's glass studio for 15 years. In 2019, he was awarded a PhD at the University of South Australia for his thesis 'Agents of...

Peter Monteath, a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, teaches History in the School of International Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide. His recent books include POW: Australian prisoners of war in Hitler's Reich, Red Professor: The Cold War life of Fred Rose (with Valerie Munt), Interned: Torrens Island 1914-1915 (with Mandy...

Denis Molyneux was born in 1925 in Braunston, Northamptonshire, UK and grew up in Welwyn, Hertfordshire. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet. After service in the Fleet Air Arm he attended the University of Birmingham and later the University of Newcastle, completing an MA in history in 1957. He joined the Physical Education Department of the University of...

Chia Moan works at the interface between ideas and words, the material world and images. Her shows have ranged from Gaining Momentum at the Half Moon Gallery in London, a pioneering exploration of women's athleticism, to recent work in Eye Object, at the Balmain Watchhouse, based on tracings of her own body in yoga action. She teaches graphic facilitation...

Paul Mitchell grew up in six Victorian country towns and now lives in the Melbourne suburb of Yarraville. His award winning poetry book, Minorphysics, was released in 2003 and his second collection, Awake Despite the Hour, was published in 2007. A journalist, copywriter and teacher, Paul has also worked as an attendant carer, service station console...

Adrian Mitchell was born in Adelaide, and for many years taught and published in Australian literature, at the University of Adelaide and then at the University of Sydney, where he remains an Honorary Research Associate. His interest now is in retrieving the stories of those who have been passed over or forgotten, and in finding new ways of re-presenting them.

Steven Miller is head of the Research Library and Archive of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has published widely on art, with his book on Australian culture between the two world wars (Degenerates and Perverts) winning the NSW Premier's Australian History Award in 2006. He lives in Sydney and is the proud owner of Finbar, a Welsh Terrier.

Miriam Miller began work as a conference interpreter at the European Commission in Belgium. She has since written books and papers for multinational organisations and speeches for corporate executives and political leaders in Asia and Australia. She lives in Perth, Western Australia.

Margaret Merrilees was born and bred in Western Australia but now lives in Adelaide. Her idiosyncratic essays, which combine memoir, history and social commentary, have appeared in Meanjin, Island, Wet Ink and Griffith Review. Her debut novel The First Week won the Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award and was shortlisted...

Award-winning journalist Michael McGuire has worked for more than twenty years at the Australian in Sydney, and the Adelaide Advertiser where he is now senior writer. He has also dabbled in state and federal politics. Michael is married to Rachel and they have two children, Tom and Ruby. Never a True Word is his first novel.

Stephanie McCarthy is a South Australian author who has been writing for the page, stage, screen and radio for 35 years. She has been a book reviewer and is a teacher of both adults and children, conducting creative writing workshops. This biography of Tom Price led her along an eight-year path of research in Wales, Liverpool and South Australia. Historians from Adelaide,...

Greg Mayfield, an award-winning journalist with the Recorder, lives in Port Pirie with his wife Ros, a breast-care nurse. Their son Louis is senior journalist at the Whyalla News.

Richard Maurovic is a technically skilled and highly creative artist of more than 30 years experience. Maurovic is based in Adelaide and has travelled widely; this is reflected in his many paintings of cities, ports, factories, small settlements and panoramas from around the world. Taking a deep interest in all aspects of transport and infrastructure, Maurovic's renderings...

Julia Masters was born in England and has lived in Australia from the age of four. She briefly pursued a legal career before taking up farming and writing. She and her husband live on a property in the south-east of South Australia, producing merino and cross-bred wool, prime lambs and beef cattle. Five years of Julia's life were spent in infertility treatment, and this book...

Susan Marsden is a professional historian who works all over Australia as a consultant and oral history interviewer. She has also been a state historian, a national conservation manager, and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. She was awarded the History Council of South Australia's inaugural Life-long Achievement Award in 2012.

Annette Marner's poetry has been published in several anthologies. She was shortlisted for the International Youth Year Young Writers' Award, won the BankSA poetry prize and has read her work widely. She is also a regular literary commentator on ABC Radio National.

Ashley Mallett is a born storyteller and former Test cricketer. His ambition was to take 100 Test wickets, a feat he achieved in his 23rd match, along with Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Graham McKenzie. Ashley continues to write cricket for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Cricinfo, and to coach Australia's best and emerging spin bowlers, either...

David Macfarlane was born in Perth, Western Australia, but lived in half a dozen places – including a small dairy farm in Victoria, suburban Adelaide, Kuala Lumpur, and a Melbourne boarding school – before spending his teenage years in Sydney. His first job after leaving school was with a carnival, travelling between outback showgrounds, followed by brickie’s...

Stephanie Luke completed a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney in 1988 and moved to Adelaide. She enrolled in a creative writing course at the Adelaide College of TAFE in 1991, and her manuscript Harm was shortlisted in the Vogel National Literary Award (for an Unpublished Manuscript) in 1998. Harm was later published by Wakefield Press in...

Donato (Don) Longo is a graduate in history from the University of Adelaide (1980) and completed his doctorate at the Universite de Paris VIII (1985). He worked at Adelaide University from 1985 until his retirement, in university management, languages and multicultural policy, and teaching modern European history. He has written on 20th century French and German history,...

Some people guess that Don Loffler is the son or relative of a Holden dealer, or a former Holden factory employee, or someone closely connected with the motor trade. He is none of these, but a retired German, Latin and Chemistry teacher, who is enjoying the process of writing books on his passion - the early Holden models and the history behind them.

Born in Kapunda,...

Kate Llewellyn is the author of 25 books comprising poetry, memoir, travel, essays, journals, and letters. She is the co-editor of The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets. Her book The Waterlily: A Blue Mountain Journal sold over 35,000 copies and is soon to be republished. Kate was the first National Secretary of the Poets Union of Australia and now...

Barbra Leslie is a painter, art teacher and writer who lives in South Australia's Adelaide Hills.

Her work has been exhibited widely over four decades and her autobiography, Dear Merilyn, was published by Wakefield Press in 2008.

Since then she has enjoyed writing novellas. Mirror Image was her first.

From her days as a botanist, to her years at an agricultural school in Fiji, to her passion for Australian rock art, Miriel Lenore has long been working away at questions of ecology and place. Her poetry is also deeply grounded in her experience as a feminist, mother, grandmother and pioneer of a different sort. Miriel continues to explore the heart-breaking questions of the...

Carol Lefevre holds both a M.A. and a Ph.D in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, where she is a Visiting Research Fellow. Her novels include If You Were Mine (2008), Nights in the Asylum (2007), which won the Kibble Award, the People's Choice Award at the South Australian Writers Festival, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers...

Stephen Lawrence has taught literature and writing for over 25 years, was media columnist for The Adelaide Review, and has edited eight published anthologies of creative work, including City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty (2009). He has been a speechwriter, media, project and publications officer for the South Australian government, and was guest poetry...

Lydia Laube never says no to adventure, whether that means galloping a horse across the Mongolian plains or hopping on a cargo ship to Madagascar. Born into the farming community of Caltowie in the mid-north of South Australia, Lydia trained as a nurse in Adelaide, then set off to see the world. Her debut book, Behind the Veil: An Australian nurse in Saudi Arabia,...

Stefan Laszczuk won the Australian Vogel Award in 2007. He also won the 2004 SA Premier’s Literary award for best unpublished manuscript. As a result he has published two novels: I Dream of Magda (Allen & Unwin, 2008), and The Goddamn Bus of Happiness (Wakefield Press, 2004). He has also published a book of short stories, The New Cage. He has a...

Randy Larcombe has worked as a professional editorial and commercial photographer since 1994. His love of photographic portraiture was rewarded early in his career with inclusion in TIME, The Bulletin, Good Weekend Magazine, Weekend Australian Magazine and Australian Geographic. For over a decade his work has featured in...

Dean Lahn is a graphic designer living in Adelaide. His last book, Body Piercing, which he created with photographer Andrew Dunbar, won major design awards and sold out across the world.

At the age of seventeen, Mike Ladd began reading his poetry at Adelaide's renowned Friendly Street and his poems started appearing in local and national publications. His first book The Crack in the Crib was published in 1984 followed by eight collections of poetry and prose. Mike was the editor of ABC Radio National's highly respected Poetica, which ran...

Jeri Kroll has published over twenty books for adults and young people, including poetry, picture books and novels. Her most recent are a chapbook of children’s poems, Swamp Soup (Picaro Press, 2012), and Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan), co-edited with Graeme Harper. A staged reading of Vanishing Point (verse novel) was...

Mark Kimber is the Studio Head of Photography and New Media at the SA School of Art at the University of South Australia. Mark’s work is collected in various public and private collections both nationally and internationally. In 2000 he completed his MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea School of Art, London and exhibited in several exhibitions in the UK. Spanning the past 20...

Sharon Kernot worked as a community support worker in a child protection agency in the northern suburbs of Adelaide for eleven years. She has a masters in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide and a PhD from Flinders University.

Cath Kenneally is an arts journalist and broadcaster. She has written five books of poetry, including Around Here, which won the John Bray National Poetry Award, and one other novel, Room Temperature, also published by Wakefield Press. She lives in Adelaide and has three children.

Robert Kearney is a military historian with insight that comes from 20 years of service in the Australian Regular Army and a further 18 years in the Army Reserve, mostly as a commissioned officer. Valour and Violets is Robert's sixth book about Australia's military history. In 2016, Robert was awarded an OAM for his service to military history preservation and the...

Dr Doreen Kartinyeri was born at Raukkan in 1935. After the sudden death of her mother when she was 10, Dr Kartinyeri was placed in the Salvation Army's Fullarton Girls' Home under the government policies for Aboriginal people at the time. At the age of 13 she was put into domestic service in the Adelaide Hills. With husband Terry Wanganeen she bore nine children whom she...

Ron Kandelaars is passionate about South Australian stories, regularly travelling the state for both Channel 7 News and SA Weekender television programs. Ron has written, produced and presented over 2000 stories for Channel 9's multi-awardwinning travel program Postcards. In 2011, Ron was awarded South Australian of the Year (Tourism) in the...

Deb Kandelaars was born in the Riverland, South Australia, and grew up in Adelaide’s north-eastern suburbs. She graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Masters in Creative Writing. Memoirs of a Suburban Girl is her first novel winning her a Longlines residential fellowship at Varuna, The Writers’ House in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Adelaide...

Jon Jureidini is Professor of Psychiatry and Paediatrics, Critical and Ethical Mental Health Research Group, Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Jane Jose is an urbanist who has worked in the world of planners and architects. She was elected as an independent Deputy Lord Mayor of Adelaide in 1991. Since then she has worked closely with leaders in many Australian cities developing policies to make our cities more liveable. She cares deeply about urban places and spaces and how they improve people’s lives.

Philip Jones is an author and historian based at the South Australian Museum, where he undertakes research on Aboriginal art, history and material culture, and on anthropological, photographic and expeditionary history. He has undertaken fieldwork with Aboriginal people in the Simpson Desert region and, more recently, with Warlpiri people of Yuendumu. His landmark book,...

Erica Jolly completed secondary education at St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School and graduated from the University of Adelaide with an Honours degree in history in 1956. She then taught in secondary schools for forty years, mainly in South Australian Technical High Schools until 1974. In 1978 she completed a Masters degree in English literature at Flinders...

Two of Dorothy Johnston's literary novels, One for the Master and Ruth, have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin award. She's had numerous short stories published in magazines and anthologies, and regularly reviews fiction for Fairfax newspapers.

Dr Noris Ioannou is an Adelaide-based cultural historian, among Australia's foremost writers on Australian folk culture, heritage and the decorative arts. His first cultural history, Ceramics in South Australia 1836-1986, received the Australian Heritage Award. His other books include a landmark text on the Barossa Valley and its Germanic heritage, as well as...

Gina Inverarity worked for many years as an editor for a range of publishers. Her first children's book, The Brown Dog, was published in 2017. Gina owns a forest in New Zealand and hopes to live in it one day. For now she lives in Wellington with her partner and two daughters. Snow was her first young adult novel.

David Hutchison's publications include articles, essays, poetry and short fiction, botanical illustrations, A Town Like No Other (about the Benedictine Community of New Norcia in Western Australia), and Fremantle Walks.

Food security - and the absence of it - has been Lolo Houbein's lifelong preoccupation. She regarded every garden where she messed around with plants as a farm to feed her household. Lolo Houbein's great-great-grandfather was a market gardener in North-West Frisia, passing a gardening gene down the generations. Lasting influences were her Uncle Wim's small farm and the...

Dr Dino Hodge - Konstantino Hadjikakou - was introduced to notions of empire and colonisation by his Cypriot family, and to fluidity in identity and intimacy through his Greek cultural heritage. His publications include Did You Meet Any Malagas? (1993), Don Dunstan, Intimacy and Liberty (2014) and Colouring the Rainbow (2015). He is co-editor of...

Garry Hiskey, a retired magistrate, acted as solicitor for Yalata Community Inc. in the negotiations that led to the passage of the Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984 (SA). He was appointed registrar of the Credit Tribunal in 1976 and took the role of senior solicitor for the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement of South Australia from 1980 to 1984. From 1984 to...

John Hill was born in the western suburbs of Sydney in 1949 and settled in South Australia in 1974. Following a career as a schoolteacher, he became ministerial assistant 1986-1989, ALP state secretary 1994-1997, and member for Kaurna 1997-2014. He held several portfolios under premiers Rann and Weatherill, most notably as Minister for Health for seven years. He did not...

Paul Heywood-Smith is an Australian barrister and Queen's Counsel who has maintained an interest in Palestine for over forty years. That interest led him to accept the role of Chairperson of the Australian Friends of Palestine Association, an organisation dedicated to the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the basis of international law and UN resolutions. He visited...

Angela Heuzenroeder's knowledge of Barossa food comes from all the Barossa meals she has eaten in her lifetime. She was born in the Barossa Valley, came back to be married and has lived there ever since. Angela has long been involved in keeping local history alive. As a teacher-librarian in local schools, she has collected materials and taught children about the history of...

Rachel Hennessy was born in Canberra, and has lived in Newcastle, Sydney, Brisbane, London and Adelaide. She resides now in Melbourne with her partner and two daughters.

Louise Haselton is an artist living in Adelaide, Australia.

She makes sculptural works using materials gleaned from the world around her. In 2002 Haselton completed a Masters of Visual Arts (Sculpture) by research at RMIT University, Melbourne and in 2005 undertook a residency at Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi, India. Haselton held solo exhibitions, in 2011 at The...

Samela Harris was born in Adelaide. She worked as a journalist in London and Edinburgh, pausing to marry, bear two sons and spend five years as an organic market gardener in lush Surrey, England. It was there that her interest in hearty home cookery developed. Returning to Australia as a supporting mother, Samela made bountiful shoestring budget meals the core of a secure...

Rhondda Harris is a retired archaeologist. She studied at Flinders University where her honours thesis on archaeology and postcontact Indigenous Adelaide was both the start of her career and the beginning of a passion for researching the history of early Adelaide. She now works on deceased estates, sorting through the accumulations of lives. She sees this as a sort of...

Liz Harfull is passionate about telling the stories of regional Australia, its people, communities and traditions. An award-winning journalist and Churchill Fellow specialising in rural communication, she grew up on a small farm near Mount Gambier. Liz was first inspired to write as a child, encouraged by Robe historian and author Kathleen Bermingham. Today Liz lives in the...

Sally Harding is a photographer and journalist (ex The Courier, The Advertiser) with substantial Public Relations and Publishing experience (Metro Books, London). She now works for Adelaide Hills Magazine and lives in Nairne in the Adelaide Hills, with her partner and their two children.

Belinda Hannaford has excelled in living and loving with a sense of humour. Her strength is always finding a way through relentless obstacles. Belinda has touched on a thousand things, including singing her own compositions and entertaining, cooking, running restaurants and starting community programs.

Reg Hamilton is the direct descendant of Richard Hamilton, an old colonist who arrived in South Australia from Dover in 1837. The Honourable Reg Hamilton, a barrister and solicitor, is a Deputy President of Fair Work Australia, the national industrial tribunal, and is married with one son.

Ken Haley is one of Australia's most widely travelled authors, having visited 131 countries at length.

He became a paraplegic in 1991 but, as far as Ken is concerned, the only difference that's made is that he now observes the world from a seated position.

Ken is a Walkley Award-winning journalist.

Dr Fred Guilhaus is a company director and writer. He lives in Adelaide.

Grace Goodfellow, lover of lists, stories and stealing lines from conversations, began writing as soon as she was physically able. In 2008, she was awarded the overall prize for The Somerset National Novella Writing Competition.

Geoff Goodfellow has been writing and publishing poetry and short prose for over thirty years. He has performed his poetry at schools, jails, colleges, universities, construction sites, factories, rock concerts and literary festivals. Translations of his poems have appeared in Mandarin, Greek, Italian and Spanish. Geoff lives close to the sea in Semaphore, South Australia.

John Gladstones is a leading Australian agricultural scientist, with a distinguished record in the breeding, agronomy and botany of crop and pasture legumes that has earned him many scientific and community awards, including Member of the Order of Australia (AM). His pioneering work in viticulture led to the establishment of Margaret River as a premium wineproducing region....

David Gibb is a writer with an abiding interest in the literature of the Second World War, especially the personal experiences of veterans. He has worked extensively as a writer-producer in the electronic and print media, and has had short stories and poetry published, David lives in Adelaide and is married to Chris, with whom he has a son.

Denise George studied Professional Writing and Communication, and has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. Mary Lee is the result of exhaustive searches in Armagh, Monaghan, Cambridge, London and Adelaide.

Wendy Frew is an award-winning journalist who has interviewed captains of industry and media, pulled back the veil on corrupt developments in New South Wales, and taken a look at the seedier side of the art-auction market. She has worked in Australia and overseas for a number of media organisations, including Fairfax Media, Reuters and the BBC.

Alex Frayne is a celebrated South Australian artist whose chosen form is photography. With a pedigree in filmmaking, he shoots predominantly analogue formats including 6 x 6 cm, 6 x 9 cm and 35 mm.

Rodney Fox now travels the world giving talks about his experiences with sharks, and is a strong advocate for environmental conservation. He co-founded the Fox Shark Research Foundation which is devoted to the study of the great white shark. The foundation works towards further understanding the great white shark, using the latest technology and methods of research in...

Mary Anne Fitzgerald has covered eastern and West Africa for the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, the Economist, and the Sunday Times of London. She is the author of 11 books on Africa, including the bestselling Nomad: One woman's journey into the heart of Africa. Most recently she was the lead writer for...

Max Fatchen's novels for children have been published across the world, and The River Kings was turned into a television mini-series. His poetry books have been bestsellers, and his poems much anthologised. For generations of South Australians, brought up on his intriguing, gently subversive daily columns and verse, Max has been the scribe of suburbia.

Lisa Fabry's two great passions in life - food and yoga - led her to the 'divine vegan' concept, a way of combining practical food choices with ethical, moral and spiritual awareness. Born in London, Lisa now lives in Adelaide. She has worked as a film and television producer, writer, editor, barista, chef, and yoga teacher. In between times, she home educated her two...

Peter Endersbee was born in Adelaide in 1949 and studied and played football there before moving to Melbourne in 1977 to become a semi-professional musician and teach English at Footscray Technical School. In 1989 he gained selection to the Swinburne Film School. Returning to Adelaide in the 1990s he wrote scripts for ABC radio, which he performed live on Keith Conlon’s...

Christine Ellis is a strategic communications consultant who maintains strong links to her hometown of Broken Hill. Christine is a director of Foundation Broken Hill, a not-for-profit organisation supporting the Silver City's transition to a diversified economy independent of its rapidly declining mining industry. Her narrative non-fiction works Silver Lies, Golden...

Roy Eccleston is an award-winning journalist with the Advertiser. He has worked at the Courier-Mail, the Age, the Australian, and the Bulletin magazine; and written for Time magazine, and The Times, London. From 2000-2005, he was the Australian's Washington correspondent. He has edited SAWeekend...

Elizabeth (Beth) Duncan was born at Glenelg, South Australia, a descendant of emigrants who reached the colony in 1839. After completing her schooling in South Australia she worked on a Northern Territory cattle station as a governess for two years, before undertaking nursing training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Following the completion of a Diploma in Social Studies at...

Gillian Dooley is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University. She is the co-editor of Matthew Flinders' Private Journal (2005), of the 2019 Wakefield Press anthology The First Wave: Exploring Early Coastal Contact History in Australia (with Danielle Clode), and (with Philippa Sandall) of Trim: The Cartographer's Cat (2019), a new...

Penelope Debelle is an award-winning journalist who began her career at the News in Adelaide. In 1983 she moved to Melbourne and worked as a political reporter at the Herald, then as Melbourne writer for Good Weekend magazine. In 1995, after the birth of her daughter, Honey, she returned to Adelaide where she worked as Adelaide correspondent for...

A former model, Miranda Darling has completed a BA Hons in English and Italian literature (obtaining a double first) at Oxford University and now works in film and television production in London.

Jack Cross grew up in the lower Flinders Ranges amid the influences of the German Lutheran community. He holds qualifications from Adelaide Teachers College, the University of Adelaide, the University of Melbourne and Stanford University in California, and has worked as a teacher, freerange poultry farmer and associate professor. Jack spent five years as a Research Fellow in...

Tracy Crisp is the author of Black Dust Dancing and Surrogate. Her work has been published in Best Australian Stories, Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings and Island. Tracy is also a funeral celebrant and consultant specialising in alternative funerals. She lives in Adelaide.

Mark Crick is a photographer. He lives in London. Kafka's Soup is his first book.

As a keen yachtsman, Dr John Couper-Smartt was naturally drawn to live in Port Adelaide when he emigrated from England in 1978. He was immediately fascinated by the history of the old harbour, its waterside city and its river, much of which is revealed by the names that its residents gave to their streets. Now that John has retired from his work as a psychiatrist, he can...

Evelyn Conlon is a novelist, short-story writer and radio essayist. Born in Ireland, she lived in Australia for a number of years. Her last novel Skin of Dreams was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year. The title story of her collection Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour was performed at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival. She is a member of Aosdana, the...

Annabelle Collett (1955–2019) was a South Australian designer and artist whose work embraced art, design and craft. Her fashion designs and particularly her dramatic knitwear produced under the Ya Ya Oblique Clothing label, attained international recognition. Her work also encompassed furniture design, graphics, costume and interior design, public art and environments....

Aidan Coleman was born in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1976 and lived in Nottingham, Wollongong, the Barossa and Gawler before settling in Adelaide. He has been published in a number of journals and newspapers in Australia, the UK and the USA. His poems have appeared in a number of anthologies, including the Best Australian Poems of 2005 and 2006, and have been performed on ABC...

Kirsten Coelho works in porcelain creating functional forms and vessels of a distilled and otherworldly perfection, which represent her preferred fusion of the formal with the abstract. Deeply grounded in North-Asian ceramic history and the powerful legacy of the British studio movement, her refined interpretations of humble domestic wares nevertheless possess a distinctly...

Danielle Clode is the author of nine books on various aspects of Australia's environment and history. Killers in Eden (2002), later made into a TV documentary, documented the importance of Indigenous culture in the development of the unique hunting collaboration between the Twofold Bay killer whales and whalers. In 2007, Voyages to the South Seas, on French...

Ken Clezy, AM, OBE, spent most of a long professional career in the developing world, specialising in the reconstructive surgery of leprosy. He was awarded the International Medal of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and is an honorary member of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. His memoir Now in Remission (Wakefield Press) was published in 2012....

Sharon Cleary developed a passion for Australia's military history when as a teenager she read A.B. Facey's A Fortunate Life. A communications specialist, Sharon came to Valour and Violets in 2017 via her role as manager of the Anzac Centenary Coordination Unit for Veterans SA. Sharon managed the compilation and editing of Valour and Violets hand...

Diana Chessell's fascination with cross-cultural history and education reflects her 27 years lecturing and research at the University of South Australia and the Australian National University. Her extensive historical field research has taken her to Italy and Greece and for Mr Young, to Cornwall and Scotland and inside the archives of Adelaide, 'city of dissenting...

Eileen Chanin is a historian at the University of New South Wales, and is currently the Menzies Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London. Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art (2005), co-authored with Steven Miller, received the NSW Premier's Australian History Award. The pair...

Jo Case is an Adelaide-based writer, editor and bookseller. Her first book, Boomer and Me: A memoir of motherhood, and Asperger's (2013) was shortlisted for the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing. Her personal essays have been published in the anthologies Mothermorphosis (MUP, 2015) and Rebellious Daughters (Ventura Press, 2016). She is a...

Mark Carroll is an Adelaide based musician, educator and academic. Carroll was a member of Young Modern in the late 1970s and for their reformation in the 2000s. He has a regular spot on 5AA radio as 'The Rock Doctor' and is co-director of The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the Elder Conservatorium. His previous publications include The Ballets Russes...

Lance Campbell has long experience of Adelaide. Born on Unley Road, he is an arts writer and multiple award-winning sports writer. He wrote By Popular Demand for the Adelaide Festival Centre's 25th anniversary, and Heart of the Arts for its 40th. He also collaborated on City Streets with Mick Bradley, which he describes as one of the more...

Born and educated in Adelaide, Heather Caddick has had a diverse career spanning kindergarten teaching to stockbroking and investment. She has always been passionate about voluntary work, encompassing conservation of wildlife and humanitarian causes in Africa. When she is not travelling, she lives in Adelaide with her husband, Alfie.

When Rosemary Cadden and Jane Willcox met 25 years ago, Rosemary was impersonating a haggis. Food has been a big part of their relationship ever since. They later shared their first meal when they found themselves sitting at the same table at a publicity junket while working as journalists for the Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide. Although they went in different...

Philip Butterss grew up in Melbourne, studied at the University of Sydney, where he completed a PhD on Australian ballads, and now teaches Australian literature and film at the University of Adelaide. He has published widely on Australian cultural history and is currently working on a history of literary Adelaide.

Simon Butters is a screenwriter for film and television. His credits include: Wicked Science, H20 Just Add Water and Mako: Island of Secrets among others. He lives in the Adelaide Hills with his two hilarious kids, a very busy wife, and a scruffy little dog that definitely doesn't talk but does do a weird grunt when you pat her behind the ear.

Tom Burton is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Adelaide. He taught at secondary schools in East Africa and England before taking up a lectureship in the (then) Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide in 1974. His chief interests are in medieval English language and literature, the history of the English language, historical and...

Peter Burdon is Associate Professor at the Adelaide Law School and a delegate for the National Tertiary Education Union. He is also Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) for the Adelaide Law School. Peter's research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology, political science, economics, philosophy, history and environmental studies. Peter is an expert in...

Kirsty Brooks is no expert in relationships. In fact, she's made a real cock-up of many promising encounters. But a life of domestic flux with a bundle of Love Boat stowaways, an alarming history of freelance writing, a love/hate relationship with the internet, a journalism degree, and a sense of 'coming home' whenever she enters the fetid confines of a musty pub ensure that...

Geoff Brooks is one of Monarto Zoo's longest serving employees and has been involved in the zoo's rhino program since the arrival of the first rhino in 2000.

Robert Brokenmouth is a war historian who has edited books published by Wakefield Press, including They Hosed Them Out and 101 Nights.

Veronica Brodie was a respected Aboriginal elder who worked to help her people remember and value their culture and traditions.

Steve (Steven) Brock lives in Adelaide with his wife and eight-year-old daughter. He has lived and travelled widely in South America, and has published his poetry and translations from the Spanish in a range of journals. In 2003 Steve completed a PhD in Australian literature at Flinders University, and he currently works as a speech writer and policy officer. He recently...

Stephen Bowers makes pottery that fires the imagination. He combines rich, modern life experiences with skills and traditions that stretch back thousands of years to create complex works full of wonder. From familiar, everyday items, to the transformative alchemy of deluxe and super deluxe bravura museum pieces, his art is acclaimed and collected across Australia and...

Linda Bosnic is a mother of two young boys, passionate cook and advocate for organic, fresh and additive-free food. She created the simple and delicious recipes in this book after a nephew was diagnosed with severe food allergies. Linda lives in Melbourne. She has published articles in Melbourne’s Child magazine and Reader’s Digest.

Charmless, and 'despondent' despite a seemingly endless run of luck, Ken Bolton managed - with an ineptitude profonde - the Lee Marvin readings, and Dark Horsey, the Experimental Art Foundation's bookshop. In Adelaide, a figure trailing rumour and scandal, his recent collections include Starting at Basheer's (Vagabond) and 2022's Fantastic...

Julie Blyfield won the $50,000 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize 2011 with her artwork Scintilla Series "Spiralling weed, Soft sponge, Sea urchin" Vessels 2010.

Dr Sarah Blunden has experience researching and working with families to diagnose and treat children's sleep problems. The Sensible Sleep Solution and the COTSS techniques outlined in this book have been successfully used for many years by Dr Blunden in her sleep clinic.

Great painting is universal and timeless – its messages are understood across generations and cultures. The art of Australian artist Annette Bezor speaks eloquently to a wide audience about the cultural issues and social mechanisms of gender, sexuality, beauty, desire, the body, identity, and their representation. Her large-scale paintings are visually complex and layered,...

From 1988 to 1993 David Bevan was a court reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Adelaide Advertiser. After that he covered South Australian politics for ABC Radio and Television News before joining ABC local radio. Since 2001 he has hosted the ABC's Morning and Breakfast programs with Philip Satchell, Matthew Abraham and currently Ali Clarke....

Shaun Berg was born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1967. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Adelaide. He has travelled widely throughout his life. He lives in South Australia.

An architectural scientist by profession, Helen Bennetts has always had an interest in growing and cooking food. She spent her university holidays helping in her parents' restaurant and at various times has made cheese, processed olives, helped establish a farmers market and catered for small and large events. Nearly 20 years ago Helen and her husband bought a small property...

Dr Samantha Battams is an associate professor and has been a university lecturer, researcher, community development worker, advocate, health service administrator and management consultant. She has published academic articles and book chapters in the fields of public health and global health, social policy and sociology. Her first book, The Secret Art of Poisoning,...

Gabrielle Baldwin has taught literature and conducted educational policy research at several Victorian universities. She now divides her time between inner-city Melbourne and South Gippsland, where she and her husband Peter have established a native garden.

Tall when necessary, Peter Bakowski has been writing poetry for 41 years. He remains influenced by the following quote, attributed to Robert Frost - 'Make your next poem different from your last.' In 2015 Editions Bruno Doucey of Paris published a bilingual selection of his poetry, titled Le coeur à trois heures du matin. Later this decade Editions Bruno Doucey will publish...

Consultant rheumatologist and pain physician Mark Awerbuch, FRCP, FFPMANZCA, was the author of three books, including the bestseller Live Stronger Live Longer, and numerous articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Mark, who lived with his wife Jill in the Adelaide Hills, died in 2021.

Dr Norman Ashton was born and raised in Fremantle. He is a distinguished scholar, whose career included Chair of the Academic (Professorial) Board and Academic Council; Head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Western Australia; and Pro Vice-Chancellor at The University of Adelaide. Among his publications are three major books:...

Emma Ashmere was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Her short stories have been widely published including in the Age, Griffith Review, Overland, Review of Australian Fiction, Sleepers Almanac, Etchings, Spineless Wonders, #8WordStory, NGVmagazine, and the Commonwealth Writers literary magazine,...

Tori Arbon grew up eating mainly packaged and tinned 'convenience food' but became passionate about exploring flavours, growing food, cooking and cultures began when she discovered Adelaide's Asian food scene. Inspired by Lolo Houbein and her book One Magic Square, she created Magic Harvest, an organisation that connects neighbours as they grow their own food, share...

Charlie Archbold was born in London. She completed a degree in drama before training as a teacher and has worked as an educator for twenty-five years. She recently completed a Master of Education in Studies of Asia. After travelling extensively she settled in Australia and lives with her family in Adelaide. Mallee Boys is her first novel.

Lainie Anderson is a writer whose 35-year career in journalism and public relations includes 17 years as a columnist with the Sunday Mail, as well as stints at the Herald Sun, London's The Times and the South Australian Tourism Commission. After being awarded a Churchill Fellowship, Lainie published her debut novel Long Flight Home in 2019.

John M. Allgrove was born in Johore, across the Causeway from Singapore, where his father managed a rubber plantation. The war had tragic circumstances for John's family. His mother died at the fall of Singapore, and his father, as a POW, was one of the many who built the bridge over the River Kwai. His education was completed in Adelaide and at Reading University in the...

David Ades lives in Adelaide with his wife Natasha, and his daughter Orli. He has been a regular reader at Friendly Street Poets since 1979, and has also served as a committee member and convenor, and co-edited the Friendly Street Poetry Reader 26. He has read his poetry at many venues around South Australia and also in Austin, Texas, where he could barely be heard...

Jennifer Barclay has written on travel, culture and books for the Korea Herald, the Globe and Mail and The East and is a regular contributor to the blog www.londonkoreanlinks.net. Co-editor of AWOL: Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds, she has lived in several countries and is now based in West Sussex.

Christine V. Courtney's first career was as a professional dancer, moving from Adelaide to Britain to dance with the Ballet Rambert and directing her own small ballet company before returning to Australia to work as a teacher and producer. Her time in dance took her around Europe, sparking a lifelong passion for the arts, and the history and architecture of the great...