Lech Blaine is 25. He is a writer from regional Queensland and an inaugural winner of the Griffith Review Fellowship. He has been published in journals such as Scum, Seizure, The Griffith Review, The Lifted Brow, Tincture and Voiceworks. Black Inc. will publish his first book Car Crash: A Memoir in late 2018.

Nigel Powell has been a police officer in both Birmingham U.K. and Queensland. He assisted Phil Dickie with his articles for the Courier Mail and appeared on the ABC’s The Moonlight State Four Corners program that led to the establishment of the Fitzgerald Inquiry. He has worked at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption and for a number of criminal defence lawyers.  He is greatly assisted in his perspectives by his other employment experiences as a chef; a mental health advocate; a builder’s labourer; a freelance journo; a private investigator and a variety of roles in the retail sector. For the last several years he has assisted Matthew Condon with his best selling accounts of Queensland’s disturbing history of corruption, politics and policing.  He is writing a memoir based on his experiences. 

Andrew Stafford is a freelance journalist and author of a book about Brisbane, Pig City, now in its third edition. His work appears in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review and more.

Julianne Schultz is the founding editor of Griffith Review.