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
 

Kate Mildenhall is the author of Skylarking (Black Inc., 2016). She is a writer and teacher who has taught in schools, RMIT University, State Library Victoria, and with Teachers Across Borders in Cambodia. Skylarking is her debut novel, based on the true story of Kate and Harriet, best friends growing up on a remote Australian cape in the 1880s, and the tragic event that befalls them.  Skylarking was named in Readings bookstore’s Top Ten Fiction Books of 2016 and longlisted for Debut Fiction in The Indie Book Awards 2017.  Kate lives in Hurstbridge, Victoria, and is currently working on a new novel.

Catherine McKinnon is an award-winning writer of novels, plays and short stories. In 2015 she was co-winner of the Griffith Review Novella 111 Award and in 2006 she won the Penguin Women’s Weekly Award for her short story Haley and the Sea. Her play Tilt was selected for the 2010 National Playwriting Festival, and another of her plays, As I Lay Dreaming won the Mitch Matthews Award in 2010. Her short stories, reviews and articles have appeared in Transnational Literature, Text Journal, RealTime and Narrative. Catherine lives in NSW and teaches performance and creative writing at the University of Wollongong. Her latest book, Storyland is published by HarperCollins Australia.
 

Kári Gíslason is a writer and creative writing teacher. He has taught English Literature and Writing at the University of Iceland, the University of Queensland, and Bond University, and currently lectures in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Queensland University of Technology. His first book, The Promise of Iceland (UQP, 2011), told the story of his Icelandic family history. The Ash Burner (UQP, 2015), was his first novel. In 2017, he will publish Saga Land (HarperCollins/ABC Books), a book about Iceland coauthored with Richard Fidler.