Of Rembarranga and Tiwi descent, Marie Munkara was delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River in Arnhemland by her two grandmothers and spent her early years on Bathurst Island. Her first novel, Every Secret Thing, won the David Unaipon Award in 2008 and the Northern Territory Book of the Year in 2010. She was writtern two children’s books, Rusty Brown and Rusty and Jojo, and another novel, A Most Peculiar Act. Marie is presently working on the TV mini-series for Every Secret Thing and her next novel. 

Sarah Ridout has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University College Dublin, where she also contributed to the anthology New Tricks With Matches. Over the past eleven years she has lived in four countries with her husband and two children, including eight years surrounded by the vineyards and chateaus of southern France, which seeded the idea for her first novel. Le Chateau was selected to participate in the Queensland Writers Centre/Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program before it was acquired by Echo Publishing. Sarah is currently based in Brisbane.