Sarah Kanake is a doctor of Creative Writing and lecturer at USC. Her short fiction has been published in The Southerly, Kill Your Darlings, Award Winning Australian Writing, and The Lifted Brow. She has been short-listed for the Overland Short Story Prize and won the QUT Postgraduate Writing Award. Sarah lives on the Sunshine Coast with her partner, daughter and two dogs. She is one half of the country music duo The Shiralee. Sing Fox to Me is her first novel.

Sarah Schmidt is a writer from Melbourne and currently works as a Reading and Literacy Coordinator at a regional public library. See What I Have Done is her first novel
 

Steven Lang’s new novel, Hinterland, was released in July. He is the author of two previous novels, An Accidental Terrorist, which won Premiers’ Literary Awards in both Queensland and NSW, and 88 Lines about 44 Women, which was shortlisted for both the Christina Stead and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards for Fiction. He co-directs Outspoken Maleny, an extended writers’ festival taking the form of occasional conversations with major Australian and international writers. 

Rosie Jones is an award-winning writer, director and editor. Her most recent feature documentary The Family, about the notorious Australian cult of the same name, premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2016 and won the FCCA award for Best Australian Feature Documentary. Other credits include The Triangle Wars (Best Australian Documentary, Antenna Documentary Festival 2011), Westall ’66: a Suburban UFO Mystery, Obsessed with Walking, about the Booker-nominated writer Will Self, Holy Rollers and Visions of Yankalilla. She has also edited numerous documentaries for Australian and international broadcasters. The Family is her first book.