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.
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, Trauma and Memory (Rutgers University Press 2010).
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.