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Biographies
Anh Do is an accomplished comedian and MC with ten years experience. A talented writer, actor, producer and comedian, Anh has played to sell out crowds at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and The Sydney Opera House. He has appeared on such TV shows as Rove
Arnold Zable is an acclaimed writer, educator, human rights advocate and one of Australia’s most loved storytellers. His books include Jewels and Ashes, The Fig Tree, and three novels, Café Scheherazade, Scraps of Heaven, and Sea of Many Returns. His
Chris Badenoch, a long-time passionate home cook, brought his 'nose to tail' style of cooking to a greater audience on TV's MasterChef Australia, where he was best known as the hat-wearing beer merchant whose perfect roast pig's head both fascinated
In August 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan travelled to Somalia to report a story few wanted to tell - the human price of 20 years of complex conflict, food insecurity and drought in a country the international community had all but abandoned.
Nicole Bonney is Nigel Brennan's sister and co-wrote The Price of Life with him and their sister-in-law Kellie Brennan. She is married to Simon. They have three kids and run a nursery in Bundaberg. In 2011 Nicky returned to study.
David Astle is ‘the word guy’ on SBS’s Letters and Numbers. He is also known as cryptic crossword setter DA and in 2010 released the book Puzzled, demystifying the cryptic crossword. Clue by clue, chapter by chapter, Puzzled meanders through the maze
Dr Anita Heiss is the author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles. She is a regular guest at writers' festivals and travels internationally performing her work and lecturing on
Fiona Wood has been writing television scripts for the last ten years on shows ranging from MDA and The Secret Life of Us, to Home and Away and Neighbours. Her first YA novel is Six Impossible Things. She lives in Melbourne with her husband, two YAs
Jason Steger is literary editor of The Age, commissioning book reviews and author interviews and news stories. He writes a weekly column on books and publishing, and writes author interviews, news stories and comment pieces. Jason joined Fairfax as business
John is the author of three novels, his first novel - Furies, UQP, 2004 - drew on his experience of rural life in Wedderburn, where he lived for thirteen years. Furies was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book. His second novel
Steven Amsterdam has been writing for decades, producing everything from speeches for the Tokyo Auto Show to little artsy dance reviews in free weeklies. His first book, Things We Didn’t See Coming was The Age Book of the Year for 2009 and has been printed
She used to annoy her Nana with questions about the family tree, now Family Tree Time's Megan Gibson works as a freelance researcher, including on some episodes of the hit Australian tv series “Who Do You Think You Are?”. Megan's personal list of timesaving
Zoe Dattner is co-founder and creative director of Melbourne small press Sleepers Publishing and is also General Manager for SPUNC, the Small Press Network, an organisation that works to promote and support small and independent publishers.
Jenny Darling Associates is one of the leading literary agencies in Australia. Jenny started her career in publishing working in some of Melbourne’s best independent bookshops. In 1990 she was employed as assistant to Caroline Lurie at Australian Literary
Kalinda Ashton is an Australian writer and academic based in Melbourne, Victoria. She holds a doctorate in professional writing from RMIT, and has taught literature and creative writing at various universities in Australia. She has written fiction, poetry
Michael Robotham began his career an investigative journalist in Australia and Britain. He later became a ghostwriter, collaborating on fifteen 'autobiographies' including those of Lulu, Rolf Harris, Geri Halliwell and Ricky Tomlinson. Twelve of these
F. P. Hanna has over thirty years experience in the publishing industry in Australia and overseas. He is the manager of the assessment, editing and production department at Horizon Publishing Group. He is an expert linguist, editor, researcher, journalist,
Lynne Gasperov has been studying, teaching and exhibiting art for twenty years. Subject matter is found in the ordinariness of life. Her handmade journals are a by-product of current work which uses old, discarded books. Pages and text are obliterated
Jack Heath is the author of six action-packed thrillers for young adults. He started writing his first book at age thirteen and had a publishing contract for it at eighteen. His work is now sold in eight countries.
Donna Rawlins came to children's book illustration from a background in the print and publishing industries where she worked as a darkroom operator, graphic designer, silkscreen and offset printer, book designer and editor. She has illustrated her own
Best-selling author Michael Pryor has published more than twenty books and fifty short stories. He is one of Australia’s leading fantasy writers. Michael has been shortlisted six times for the Aurealis Awards (including for Blaze of Glory and Heart of
After beginning his creative career in children's theatre and as a musician, Wayne Harris studied illustration and design and went on to craft many wonderful and award-winning picture books for children. Wayne has taught design and illustration for more
J.C. Burke was born in Sydney in 1965, the fourth of five sisters. With writers for parents, she grew up in a world of noise, drama and books, but she decided to become a nurse after her mother lost a long battle with cancer. Since Burke started writing
Helen Newman is an award winning filmmaker and writer whose quest for gathering stories has taken her from rural and remote Australia to Afghanistan, Iraq, India and Pakistan. The nature of Helen's projects has led to her working in a wide range of situations
Robyne Young has worked with words for almost 30 years as a journalist, PR person and event manager including Write around the Murray. She has had short fiction, poetry and non-fiction published, and self published a collection of short stories. Robyne
Libby Clark is fascinated with language in all its forms – spoken/written, sung/drawn, verbal/non-verbal, seriously or ‘just for fun’. Growing up in the Mallee, books were a central part of everyday life – feeding the imagination and providing respite
Bruce Pennay is an honorary Adjunct Associate Professor of Charles Sturt University. Over the last twenty years, he has been exploring the meanings of Bonegilla Reception and Training Centre and, as a result, has produced articles in scholarly journals,
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