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Glenda Adams
Glenda Adams is the author of The Tempest of Clemenza(1996),
Longleg(1990), Dancing on Coral(1987), Games of
the Strong(1995) and The Hottest Night of the Century.
Her fiction has won several awards, including the Miles Franklin,
NSW Premier’s Special Award, National Book Council Banjo Award,
and The Age Fiction Book of the Year. She currently teaches
in the Writing Program at the University of Technology, Sydney. |
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Diane Armstrong
Diane Armstrong was born in Poland and arrived in Australia in
1948. She is an award-winning journalist and author whose articles
have been published all over the world. Her family memoir Mosaic:
A Chronicle of Five Generations was short-listed in the Victorian
Premier's Literary Awards and the National Biography awards. Her
latest book, The Voyage of Their Life has been on the bestseller
lists and was short-listed in the NSW Premier's Literary awards.
She is currently working on a novel. |
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Myra Jean Bourke
Myra Jean Bourke has been a teacher for many years and currently
works in the field of Special Education. After 13 years in Papua
New Guinea, she came to Canberra and became involved in an international
women's group at The Australian National University. Over the years
she has developed an interest in minority groups and feels strongly
about issues of social justice and the need for all human beings
to be able to live a good life. |
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Ian Britain
Ian Britain is the editor of Meanjin. He has lectured in
history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, at the University of
Melbourne and at Monash University. He was a founding editor of
Webbers magazine in Melbourne and a guest editor of Island
(Hobart). He is the author of Once An Australian: Journeys with
Barry Humphries, Clive James, Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes
(1997) and co-editor of The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays
(1997). |
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Delia Falconer
Delia Falconer is a Sydney novelist, essayist, and critic. Her
novel, The Service of Clouds, was short-listed for the Miles
Franklin, Age, Kibble, and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards,
and has been published in the USA and Germany. Her essays and short
fiction have appeared in The Best Australian Essays, The
Best Australian Short Stories, nest, The Australian’s
Review of Books, and the Penguin Century of Australian Stories. |
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Alan Gould
Alan Gould is a poet, novelist and essayist. His recent publications
include poems in A Fold In The Light (2001), essays in The
Totem Ship (1996), and his sixth novel The Schoonermaster’s
Dance (2000). He has won the 1999 Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal
for Literature, the 1992 National Book Council Banjo Award for fiction,
and was co-winner of the 2001 Courier-Mail Book of the
Year Award with The Schoonermaster’s Dance. |
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Tom Griffiths
Dr Tom Griffiths is author of Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian
Imagination in Australia (1996) and Forests of Ash: An Environmental
History (2001), and co-editor with Tim Bonyhady of Words
for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia (2002). He
is a Senior Fellow in the History Program of the Research School
of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. In the
summer of 2002–3 he was a Humanities Fellow with the Australian
Antarctic Division. |
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Anna Haebich
Associate Professor Anna Haebich is currently ARC Fellow in the
School of Humanities, Griffith University. Co-editor of Many
Voices, her previous publication, Broken Circles: Fragmenting
Indigenous Families 1800–2000, was awarded the non-fiction prize
in the 2001 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the NSW Premier’s
Book of the Year 2001 and the 2001 Stanner Award, as well as being
short-listed for the WA Premier’s Book Award, the Age Book
of the Year and the NSW Premier’s History Award. Associate Professor
Haebich is also co-author of The Stolen Generations: Separation
of Aboriginal Children from their Families (1999). |
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Barry Hill
Barry Hill has won Premier’s Awards for poetry for Ghosting
William Buckley (1995) and non-fiction for Sitting-In (1997).
His fiction has been widely anthologised and translated. His
most
recent work arises from travelling and research in Central Australia:
it includes The Rock: Travelling to Uluru(1994), The
Inland Sea(2001), his third book of poetry, and the much
acclaimed biography of T.G.H. Strehlow, Broken Song(2002).
He teaches occasionally at the University of Melbourne and
is Poetry Editor
for The Australian newspaper.
[Photograph by Joyce Evans] |
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Linda Jaivin
Linda Jaivin is the internationally published author of four novels
and two works of non-fiction as well as numerous essays and short
stories. Her latest book, The Monkey and the Dragon is both
a biography of Chinese songwriter and dissident Hou Dejian and a
memoir of her nine years in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. |
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Brij Lal
Professor Brij V. Lal works at the Division of Pacific and Asian
History in the Centre for the Contemporary Pacific at the Australian
National University. He is the author and editor of numerous books
and articles on colonialism and Pacific history. His books include
Mr Tulsi’s Store: A Fijian Journey (2001) and The Pacific
Islands: An Encyclopaedia (2000). |
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Colin McPhedran
Colin McPhedran has lived in the Southern Highlands of New South
Wales for more than 50 years. White Butterflies is an autobiographical
account of his remarkable survival, as an 11 year old and beyond,
of one of the most hazardous and tragic wartime refugee trails in
the world. Born in 1930 in Burma, his father was a Scot, an executive
with Shell Burmah Oil in Rangoon, and his mother a well-born Burmese
woman. With his mother, brother and sister, Colin fled the Japanese
occupation of Burma in 1942, walking through the dreaded Hukwang
Valley to India during the Monsoon.. |
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Kim Mahood
Kim Mahood is a visual artist and writer. Her book Craft for
a Dry Lake won the 2000 Age Book of the Year and the
2001 NSW Premier’s Award for non-fiction. She is a part-time lecturer
in the Sculpture department at the ANU Institute of Art, and is
currently working on a novel. |
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Doreen Mellor
Doreen Mellor is currently Director of Development at the National
Library of Australia. She co-edited Many Voices and managed
the Bringing Them Home Oral History Project at the National
Library. An Indigenous Australian, she is an experienced senior
manager with a background in the arts, education and cultural sectors.
Immediate past Director of Flinders University Art Museum in Adelaide
and former visual arts manager at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural
Institute, she has worked independently as a curator, writer, researcher
and management consultant. |
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Ros Pesman
Ros Pesman is Professor of History at the University of Sydney
where she is currently also Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the College
of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1996 she published her study
of the overseas lives of Australian women, Duty Free: Australian
Women Abroad and co-edited the Oxford Book of Australian
Travel Writing. Other recent publications include Pier
Soderini and the Ruling Class in Renaissance Florence and
the co-authored forthcoming, Veneto Migration to Australia.
She is now travelling to another area and is just beginning
an ARC
funded study of the Italian lives and writing of British women
in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. |
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Penny Russell
Dr Penny Russell is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University
of Sydney, where she teaches a range of courses on nineteenth-and
twentieth-century Australia, lifewriting and scandal in history.
Dr Russell has edited and co-edited several books in Australian
history, and is the author of A Wish of Distinction: Colonial
Gentility and Femininity. She recently completed an edition
of one of Jane Franklin’s diaries under the title This Errant
Lady: Jane Franklin’s Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney,
1839 (2002). |
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Tony Wheeler
With his wife Maureen, Tony travelled across Asia to Australia
in the early ‘70s. The book they wrote and published about that
trip became the first Lonely Planet guidebook, a business which
now employs more than 500 staff at offices in Melbourne, London,
Paris and Oakland on the San Francisco Bay, sells more than five
million books a year and has over 600 titles in print as well as
one of the world’s most popular travel websites. According to the
New York Times Tony is ‘the trailblazing patron saint of
the world’s backpackers and adventure travellers.’ |
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Arnold Zable
Arnold Zable was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1947, and
grew up in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton. He is the author
of several books including Jewels and Ashes (1991), Wanderers
and Dreamers (1998), Cafe Scheherazade (2001) and The
Fig Tree (2002). He is passionate about memory and history,
displacement and community, the experience of the Jewish diaspora,
aboriginal issues and indigenous education, and the multiplicity
of cultures within Australia. He has run workshops for migrants
and refugees, and has recently spent considerable time with refugees
held in Australian detention centres. |
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Peter Steele
Peter Steele is a Jesuit priest who has for many years taught at
the University of Melbourne, where he has a Personal Chair in the
Department of English. He has been a visiting professor at a number
of international universities. He has published books on Jonathan
Swift, on autobiography as an art, on Peter Porter, and on modern
poetry. His most recent book of poems is Invisible Riders(1999),
published by Paper Bark Press: his next book of poems, prompted
by works of art, is to be published this year by Macmillan. From
1985 to 1990 he was Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in Australia. |
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