Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of 17 books, including novels, short stories, essays, and academic publications. Her novel The Household Guide to Dying (2008) was published around the world and short- or long-listed for several awards, including the former Orange Prize. Her most recent publications are the collection of short stories, Zebra (2019) […]

Susan Sheridan FAHA is Emeritus Professor in the School of Humanities at Flinders University in Adelaide. Her latest book is The Fiction of Thea Astley (2016). Earlier books include: Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark (2011), Christina Stead (1988), Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women’s Writing 1880s to 1930s (1995), […]

Kaiya is a Ghanaian, Aboriginal, South sea and Torres Strait Islander PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Her research unpacks some of the substantial and significant connections shared between First Nations and African Diasporic peoples in Australia and throughout the Black Pacific. Kaiya hopes her research will disrupt common assumptions about the “Black experience” […]

Vicki Laveau-Harvie was born in Canada, but lived for many years in France before settling in Australia. She has three passports and treasures the unique perspective this quirk of fate affords her. In France, she worked as a translator and a business editor, despite being a specialist in 18th century French literature. In Sydney, she […]

Mathilda Imlah is the publisher of Picador Australia, based in Sydney. In 2012 she co-founded London independent publisher Head of Zeus, and she has worked as a publisher and editor in Britain and Australia for the past twelve years. She also chairs the Feminist Writers Festival.

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She’s a British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in other awards, including the Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen was announced in the honor […]

Tyree Barnette is a transplant to Sydney originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.  He and his wife Tracina moved to Sydney 7 years ago after she accepted a job in clinical research at Macquarie Park.  While here, they have grown their family with two boys: Hampton Tyree, 3 years old, and Miles Isaac, one years […]

Léa Antigny is a publicist and writer with a decade’s experience in trade publishing. She has worked on media campaigns for local and international authors across genres including literary fiction, non-fiction, illustrated and lifestyle. She is Publicity Director at Pantera Press.

Emily is our new program intern. She studied Editing and Publishing at UTS and is currently working  as a freelance editor. She enjoys running, writing short stories, and burying her head in a good book.