Julia Prendergast's fractured novel in stories, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, was published by UWA Publishing (2018). Recent short stories feature in Australian Short Stories 66 (Pascoe Publishing, 2018).
Ceridwen McCooey chose the cello because there were no female cellists in her grade 4 class. She began looping because she didn't like the idea the cello was only a classical instrument. Militancy aside, she loves what she does.
Eleanor Jackson is a poet and arts producer. A former Editor in Chief of Peril Magazine and former Board Member of the Queensland Poetry Festival, she is currently Board Chair of Peril Magazine and a Board Member of The Stella Prize.
Alena Lodkina is a Russian-born filmmaker based in Melbourne. Her writing on film has appeared in Senses of Cinema, 4:3 Journal and Fireflies. Her debut feature Strange Colours premiered at Venice Film Festival 2017 as part of Biennale College Cinema.
Kristian Häggblom is an artist, curator and educator interested in cross-cultural trans-disciplinary art practices and new modes of documentary making. He recently staged Tsuka: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Photography at the Centre for Contemporary Photography.
Julia Harai studied acting at Lee Strasberg (New York) and completed her writing MFA at Royal Central School of Speech And Drama (London). She has returned to Melbourne after six years abroad so please direct all correspondence to her pharmacist.
Jo Langdon is the author of the poetry collections Snowline (Whitmore Press, 2012) and Glass Life (Five Islands Press, 2018). She was a 2018 Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Sozopol Seminars fellow.
Duncan Hose is a poet, painter and apprentice thief. His published books include Bunratty (Puncher and Wattman, 2015), One Under Bacchus (Inken Publisch, 2011) and Rathaus (Inken Publish, 2007).
Jackie Ryan produces the Aurealis Award–winning comic series Burger Force, founded comedy writing collective the Fanciful Fiction Auxiliary, and is the author of We’ll Show the World: Expo 88 (UQP).
Leonie Brialey is a cartoonist and sometimes academic and amateur ceramicist. Her most recent work, about a ghost calling a psychic hotline, is out with Glom Press.
Grace Feng Fang is a photographer based in Melbourne. Actively engaged with the trans-cultural space, she explores an aesthetic of in-between-ness through landscape and people.
Amy Espeseth is a writer, reader and academic. She lives in Melbourne with her kind partner and demanding dogs.
Aaron Mannion is a writer, editor and academic based in Melbourne. His work has been published in Wet Ink, The Sleepers Almanac, Island and elsewhere.
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