Petronella McGovern is fascinated by what makes us tick, the lies we tell, and the secrets we keep. She is the best-selling author of Six Minutes, The Good Teacher, The Liars and The Last Trace. Her books have been nominated in the Ned Kelly Awards, the Davitt Awards and the Australian Independent Bookseller Awards. The […]

Anne-Marie Te Whiu is a cultural producer, writer, editor and weaver who lives on unceded Wangal Country. Most recently she edited Woven (Magabala, 2024). She is an Australian-born Māori and a descendant of Te Rarawa tribe through her father’s line, whose writing has been commissioned and published broadly across this continent and Aotearoa NZ. Her debut […]

Liam Keenan is a Gomeroi guitarist and curator based in Sydney. Known for his longstanding songwriting project Meteor Infant, this year saw the release, via Room40, of Keenan’s collaborative album with indie-rock experimentalist David Grubbs entitled Your Music Encountered in a Dream. A suite of three improvised guitar duets, layering effects and extended guitar techniques […]

Max Easton is a writer from Sydney. He is the creator of Barely Human, a zine and podcast series exploring underground music’s ties to counterculture and subculture. He is the author of two novels published by Giramondo: The Magpie Wing (longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award), and its follow-up Paradise Estate, released in 2023. […]

Mawunyo Gbogbo is the author of Hip Hop & Hymns, a coming-of-age story about the hilarious and heartbreaking consequences of having certain rappers as role models. Published by Penguin Random House, Hip Hop & Hymns is described by Books+Publishing as ‘a beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir’ and in naming it their non-fiction pick of the week, The […]

Melina Marchetta is a bestselling author and script writer, published in more than twenty countries and eighteen languages. Her much-loved Australian classic, Looking for Alibrandi, swept the pool of literary awards when it was published in 1992, and was released as a 2000 film, adapted by Marchetta, winning an AFI Award amongst other awards. In […]

James Jiang is the editor at Sydney Review of Books. He has also worked as Assistant Editor at both Griffith Review and Australian Book Review. Prior to becoming an editor, he taught in the English and Theatre Studies program at the University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD in modernist literature from the University of Cambridge and has […]

Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer and editor living on unceded Wangal Country. His debut book, Rock Flight was released in 2024 with Giramondo and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Hasib’s work has previously been published in Meanjin, Overland and Australian Poetry among others. He has also served as editor for Debris […]

Christof Bogacs (He/They) is a non-binary comic writer from Sydney, Australia. His debut graphic novel Under Kingdom, a middle grade fantasy-comedy with an emphasis on non-violent problem solving, was released in April 2023 through Dark Horse Comics. It was listed by The Mary Sue as one of the best Graphic Novels of 2023. Rick and […]