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Glenda Adams

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.

Diane Armstrong

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.

Myra Jean Bourke

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.

Ian Britain

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).

Delia Falconer

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.

Alan Gould

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.

Tom Griffiths

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.

Anna Haebich

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).

Barry Hill - Photograph by Joyce Evans

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]

Linda Jaivin

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.

Brij Lal

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).

Colin McPhedran

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..

Kim Mahood

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.

Doreen Mellor

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.

Ros Pesnam

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.

Penny Russell

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).

Tony Wheeler

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.’

Arnold Zable

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.

Peter Steele

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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