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.

A Walkley Award-winning journalist, Ken has worked on the foreign desk of The Times, Sunday...