by Cate Kennedy
Lois Murphy has won a few awards, including the Sisters in Crime Cate Kennedy Award for Best New Talent and the 2013 Northern Territory Literary Award for short fiction. She currently lives in Darwin.
Alexis Drevikovsky was born in Sydney. She writes to find answers and runs to prove people wrong. She has tried her hand at language teaching, the travel industry and the sustainability sector, and now works in the arts sector.
Bruce Pascoe, a Bunurong/Tasmanian/Yuin man, is an awarding winning writer, editor and anthologist. His works have been published nationally and internationally and have won several national literary competitions. He has worked as a publisher, Aboriginal language researcher, and he appeared in the SBS TV program, The First Australians.
Caroline Petit has published two novels: The Fat Man’s Daughter and Deep Night with Soho Press, NY. Her short stories have appeared in Australian literary journals, the Asia Literary Review and been broadcast on Radio National Australia. She is currently working on her third novel.
Candace Petrik has been published in Wet Ink, Voiceworks and The Death Mook. She has studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT, Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne and spent several years working in the fiction section of Borders Carlton before the great bookpocalypse.
Susan Pyke teaches with the University of Melbourne. Her poetry, short stories and associative essays have appeared in various journals including Southerly, Text Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, Descant, Overland and Island.
Toby Sime and his wife and children live in the country with a dog and, lately, a supercilious uninvited rat. He likes reading Pound, Flann, O’Brien and second rank poets of the English mainstream, but what he really likes is picnics by the riverbank with his new supercilious uninvited friend.
J Anne deStaic lives by the Georges River in Sydney in a house with two dogs and a purple roof. She is a Pediatrician by trade.
Leah Swann’s story collection, Bearings, was published by Affirm press in 2011. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Short Stories, The World To Come, Award Winning Australian Writing and Review of Australian Fiction. The first volumes of The Ragnor Trilogy were published by XOUM in 2012 and 2013, with the third due in November, 2014. Affirm Press is publishing her novel in 2015.
Rafael SW has been published in The Big Issue Fiction Edition, Voiceworks and Award Winning Australian Writing. He is a founding member of Dead Poet’s Fight Club, regularly contributes to Going Down Swinging online and competes in poetry slams. rafaelsw.com
Claire Varley is a Melbourne writer. Her work has appeared in Australian Love Poems, page seventeen, Sotto Magazine, Seizure online, Islet and [untitled].
