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.
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.