Born: Greece 1951. Came to Australia 1954. Raised: Fitzroy / Melbourne. Reason for living: Stupidity! Occupation, retired survey draughtsman. Has performed at most venues in and around the south eastern portion of Australia. Represented Australia at the International Poetry Festival in Colombia, the Weltklang Festival in Berlin, Bangkok, and toured the USA (16 cities). Currently […]

Evelyn Araluen is a poet, teacher and researcher working with Indigenous literatures at the University of Sydney. She won the the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers in 2017 and the Judith Wright Poetry Prize in 2018. Her writing has been published in Overland, Cordite, Southerly and more. Born and raised in Dharug country, […]

Ruth Armstrong is an editor at Croakey and the Croakey books editor. She is also a writer of short fiction. With a background in general practice, she worked from 1997-2015 on the editorial team of the Medical Journal of Australia.

Kate Aubusson is the health editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. She was previously the Herald‘s breaking news reporter.  She worked at Australian Doctor, breaking political and medical news, as well as reporting across eleven Specialist Updates titles for medical specialists. In 2015, Kate presented the ABC documentary Lest We Forget What, and has freelanced […]

Dr James Best is an award-winning GP who developed a special interest in autism, after his youngest son Sam was diagnosed in 2004. In 2017 his book, Sam’s Best Shot, chronicled a 6-month backpacking journey he and Sam undertook around Africa, which was also featured on Australian Story.

James Bradley is an author and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and The Penguin Book of the Ocean. His first book of non-fiction, Deep Water, will be published in 2024.

Author of Made by Humans: The AI Condition, Ellen Broad is an independent consultant and expert in data sharing, open data and AI ethics. She has worked in technology policy and implementation in global roles, including as head of policy for Open Data Institute and as manager of digital projects for the International Federation of […]

Danielle Clode is the author of nine environmental and historical non-fiction books for adults and children. She has a background in psychology, a doctorate in zoology and lectures in creative and scientific writing.  She has won several awards and fellowships for her work, including the Nettie Palmer Award for Non-Fiction and Whitley Commendation for Best […]

Kate Cole-Adams is a Melbourne-based writer and journalist. Her book Anaesthesia: The gift of oblivion and the mystery of consciousness won the Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (non-fiction category) and longlisted for the Stella Prize. It is a personal, journalistic and philosophical exploration of what […]

Annaliese Constable is a writer, performer and queer rights activist working across stand-up, queer performance and theatre. Annaliese explores themes of class, gender, sexuality, disability and race through writing about her own experiences. Renowned for self-deprecating and tragic comedic works, Annaliese is funny for a girl, pretty for a lesbian and, when she can afford […]

Dr Craig Cormick is an author and science communicator. He has worked for CSIRO and Questacon and has twice been in Best Australian Science Writing. In 2013 he was voted Unsung Hero of Science by the Australian Science Communicators and is currently President of the ASC.

PS Cottier lives in Canberra. She edited The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry with Tim Jones.  Her poem about climate change appears in the latest Best Australian Science Writing, and her prose pamphlet Paths Into Inner Canberra describes wildlife near Parliament House. PS Cottier’s PhD was written on animals in the works of Charles […]

Cathy Craigie is a Gamilaroi and Anaiwon woman from northern NSW and has worked in media and the arts for over 20 years. Cathy’s experience ranges across disciplines and she has worked in health, housing, environmental, legal, media and the arts. She is particularly interested in First Nations’ stories and their relevance today, and is currently developing a play transforming the Gamilaroi traditional […]

Tricia Dearborn is an award-winning poet whose work has featured in anthologies such as Contemporary Australian Poetry, Australian Poetry since 1788 and The Best Australian Poems. She has a degree in chemistry/biochemistry with Honours in biochemistry, and worked briefly in scientific research. Her collection Autobiochemistry (forthcoming in 2019) is named for a long autobiographical sequence […]

Benjamin Dodds is the author of Regulator. He recently completed a chapbook, The Ease of Eggs, and is currently writing a second full-length collection concerning a cross-fostered chimpanzee raised in a psychotherapist’s 1960’s Oklahoma home. Formerly a laboratory technician, Benjamin works as a teacher. He is co-judge of the 2018 Quantum Words Science Poetry Competition.

Hannah Donnelly is a writer who explores Indigenous futures, speculative fiction and responses to climate trauma. Her recent work has appeared in Sovereign Words: Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism, Office of Contemporary Art Norway (2018), Reading Victoria, Melbourne City of Literature (2018), Acclaim Issue 38 (2018) and more.

Delia Falconer is the author of two novels (The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers) and Sydney, a personal history of her hometown.  She teaches creative non-fiction at the University of Technology Sydney.  Her review-essay ‘The Opposite of Glamour’, about writing responding to the sixth great extinction, won the 2018 Walkley-Pascall prize […]

Ian Gibbins is a widely published poet, electronic musician and video artist, with three collections of poetry. He used to be an internationally-recognised neuroscientist and professor of anatomy.

Tom Griffiths AO is a historian whose books and essays have won prizes in history, science, literature, politics and journalism. He is the WK Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University and author of Hunters and Collectors, Forests of Ash, Slicing the Silence and The Art of Time Travel.

Emma Johnston AO is dean of science and professor of marine ecology and ecotoxicology at UNSW Sydney.  She is president of Science & Technology Australia and a board member of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Australian Antarctic Foundation. Professor Johnston frequently contributes expert opinion to government agencies and is a sought-after […]

Jane McCredie is a writer, journalist and a former book publisher who is now CEO of Writing NSW. She is a former science publisher and a writer and journalist with a special interest in science and medicine. She is the author of Making Girls and Boys: Inside the science of sex and was coeditor of […]

Natasha Mitchell is a multi-award-winning journalist and host of ABC Radio National’s new science, culture and storytelling show, Science Friction. She has presented flagship ABC programs including All in the Mind (2002-12) and Life Matters (2012-16), served as vice president of the World Federation of Science Journalists, was an MIT Knight Journalism Fellow, and  past […]

Margaret Morgan has worked as a solicitor in criminal law, as a screenwriter, and in biology. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Meanjin, while her works for stage (librettos for music theatre) have been performed at major Australian arts festivals. She has won an international popular science writing award. Her speculative fiction […]

Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist and author with more than a decade of experience as a full-time freelancer writing for outlets such as ABC and BBC, Nature, Australian Geographic, the Australian, Scientific American, and Ecos. Bianca works from home in the Blue Mountains and wouldn’t give it up for any office job in […]

Benison O’Reilly is a medical writer and pharmacist. She is co-author of two health books for consumers, the bestselling Complete Autism Handbook and Beyond the Baby Blues, and her freelance articles have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Guardian. A passionate ‘autism mum’, Benison has closely followed the vexed vaccines-autism debate for […]

Simon Petrie is a NZ-born, Canberra-based science fiction writer and research scientist. His work is characterised by scientific detail, humour, and the Oxford comma. He’s a three-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award and in 2012 achieved a coveted Dishonourable Mention in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

Nicky Phillips is a news editor, and the Asia-Pacific bureau chief, for Nature news.

John Pickrell is an award-winning journalist, the author of Flying Dinosaurs and Weird Dinosaurs and a former editor of Australian Geographic. He has worked in London, Washington DC and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos. John’s articles can also be found at Nature, National Geographic, Scientific American, Focus, BBC Future, […]

Peter Polites is the author of two novels published by Hachette. Down the Hume (2017) and The Pillars (2019) His fiction is about gay life in western Sydney through a queer noir lens.

Nicola Redhouse is interested in the ways we conceive of mental experience. Her hybrid memoir Unlike the Heart: a story of brain and mind is out through UQP in March 2019. Her work is in Meanjin, Island magazine, The Big Issue and Kill Your Darlings. She has worked as a book editor for the past […]

With a background as a health policy advisor in Australia and the US, Lesley Russell is an adjunct associate professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney. She is a contributing editor at Croakey, and writes the regular Health Wrap column and CroakeyGO.

Melissa Sweet is an independent journalist, media columnist, author, blogger and researcher, and the founding editor of Croakey. She has been covering health matters for more than 25 years. She is the author or co-author of several books, including Inside Madness, The Big Fat Conspiracy, Ten Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor and Smart Health Choices.

Lisa Walker’s climate change comedy, Melt,  and her debut young adult novel, Paris Syndrome, came out this year. She has also published three other novels and an essay about climate change in Griffith Review. Lisa has previously worked in environmental communication and has Masters degrees in creative writing and natural resource management.

Toby Walsh was named by the Australian newspaper as a “rock star” of Australia’s digital revolution. He is Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He regularly appears in the media talking about AI and robotics. His latest book, 2062: The World that AI Made was […]

Fred Watson has recently been appointed Australia’s first Astronomer-at-Large, following his career with the former Australian Astronomical Observatory. He is best known for his radio and TV broadcasts, talks, and other outreach programs, which earned him the 2006 Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science. He has also written a number of award-winning books and […]

Jonathan Webb is a lapsed neuroscientist and a former BBC science reporter, now working as the ABC’s science editor. He manages a team of 20 science journalists and producers working across radio, the web and social media, and appears regularly on Radio National.

David Henley is director and publisher at Brio Books, and head of the Fantastica imprint. He is the author of a futuristic thriller, The Hunt for Pierre Junior (The Pierre Junior Omnibus).

Catherine Armitage is chief editor of Nature Index at Nature Research. She is an award-winning journalist and editor whose work has won prizes across the fields of science, education, business, legal affairs and social affairs.

Karen McGhee has been a science and environment writer and editor for more than 20 years; has worked on books, magazines, documentaries and museum exhibitions for Australian and overseas audiences; and is presently the consulting editor of Australian Geographic magazine.