Living with disability on Kaurna Country, Michèle Saint-Yves primarily writes for performance – stage, screen and poetry – and on occasion has directed and produced plays and short films, with several short stories and poems published in journals and anthologies.
Read MoreBianca Millroy is an emerging Australian writer and editor whose work has been featured in Visible Ink and Writing Queensland. Bianca's unpublished manuscript ‘The Looming’ was a Queensland Literary Awards finalist (2020).
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Tsunami Hee Ja is a neurodivergent artist and illustrator living and working on Kaurna land.
She has decidedly too many pets, a tendency to take on more than she can handle at once, and crippling imposter syndrome, yet her artistic career spans two decades during which she has worked on jobs ranging from flight patches to phonics book illustrations, constantly kept on her toes by a diverse range of client briefs.
Read MoreDr. Marie Moe cares about public safety and securing systems that may impact human lives, this is why she joined the grassroots organisation “I Am The Cavalry". Marie is a senior security consultant at Mandiant, and has a PhD in information security.
Read MoreKaren M. Sandler is an attorney and the executive director of Software Freedom Conservancy, a 501c3 nonprofit organization focused on ethical technology.
Read MoreKaterina Bryant is a writer and PhD student based on Kaurna land (Adelaide, Australia).
Read MoreKerri Shying is a poet of Wiradjuri and Chinese family, publishing across many journals and anthologies.
Read MoreAmanda Tink is a blind and neurodivergent creative, personal and academic essayist.
Read MoreJoanne Anderton is an award-winning writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror -- but also kids books and creative nonfiction.
Read MoreTsunami Hee Ja is a neurodivergent artist and illustrator living and working on Kaurna land.
Read MoreEsther Ottaway is an award-winning Australian poet from Tasmania/lutruwita who was shortlisted in the global poetry prizes, the Montreal and the Bridport, in 2020.
Read MoreGreg Bell would not be here today to write were it not for science (and attention and compassion,) all of which helped him out of the abyss of catastrophic illness in 2010.
Read MoreSarah Firth (she/her) is based on Wurundjeri Country, Melbourne, Australia. She’s an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist, comic artist and writer, and internationally renowned graphic recorder. Her literary agent is Jacinta Di Mase. She is currently working on her debut graphic novel with Nakkiah Lui’s new imprint, JOAN and Allen & Unwin.
Read MoreHeather Taylor-Johnson is a multi-form writer living and working on Kaurna land near Port Adelaide. Her most recent poetry books are the verse novel Rhymes with Hyenas and the collection Alternative Hollywood Ending
Read MoreAnna Leahy’s latest books are the poetry collections What Happened Was: and Aperture and the nonfiction book Tumor.
Read MoreRachael Mead is a South Australian novelist and poet who has an Honours degree in Classical Archaeology, a Masters in Environmental Studies and a PhD in Creative Writing.
Read MoreKatherine Kelly is a biologist and word-enthusiast originally from Connemara in the west of Ireland. She is currently based in Heidelberg, Germany where she is working towards a PhD in computational cancer biology.
Read MoreLauren Poole is a disabled writer and postgraduate student at the University of Sydney. Her writing has appeared in Growing Up Disabled in Australia (Black Inc. Books, 2021), Earth Cries (Sydney University Press, 2021), GLAM@Sydney, FashionRevolution, and Honi Soit. She lives with an acquired brain injury.
Read MoreB. R. Dionysius was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. His poetry has been widely published in literary journals, anthologies, newspapers and online both in Australia and overseas.
Read MoreCath Nichols has taught creative writing to university students for fifteen years and is mainly published as a poet for adults. She was short-listed for the Penguin Randomhouse Write Now scheme 2021.
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