Tom Keneally won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler’s Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List. His nonfiction includes the memoir Searching for Schindler and Three Famines, an LA Times Book of the Year, and the histories The Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame and American Scoundrel. His novels The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Gossip from the Forest, and Confederates were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while Bring Larks and Heroes and Three Cheers for the Paraclete won the Miles Franklin Award.

Meg Keneally started her working life as a junior public affairs officer at the Australian Consulate-General in New York, before moving to Dublin to work as a sub-editor and freelance features writer. On returning to Australia, she joined The Daily Telegraph as a general news reporter, covering everything from courts to crime to animals’ birthday parties at the zoo. She then joined Radio 2UE as a talkback radio producer. For more than ten years Meg has worked in corporate affairs for listed financial service companies, and doubles as a part-time SCUBA diving instructor.

Dr Geoff Ginn teaches British history, urban history and heritage studies in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics at the University of Queensland. His current projects examine imperial cities in a broad historical perspective, the historical archaeology of Brisbane, and Broad Church Anglican social activism in late-Victorian London. Since 2005 he has served on the Board of the State Library of Queensland (to 2008) and the Queensland Museum (2008–2013), and as a judge in the Queensland Literary Awards.