Margaret Fink is an Australian film producer, noted for her important role in the revival of Australian cinema in the 1970s. Her productions include The Removalists (1975), My Brilliant Career (1979), For Love Alone (1986), Edens Lost (1988) (for TV), and Candy (2006).

Brenda is a prize winning Wiradjuri writer and artist. Her third poetry collection, ‘Inland Sea’ was published in 2021 (Ginninderra Press) and her poetry and reviews appear regularly in anthologies and journals both on-line and in print, including Australian Poetry, Plumwood Mountain, Overland, Westerly, Best Australian Prose Poems 2020 (Melbourne University Press) and Best Australian […]

Peter Minter is a poet, poetry editor and writer on poetry and poetics. His poetry has been widely published and translated internationally, most recently in the volume In the Serious Light of Nothing (Chinese University Press Hong Kong, 2013). He has been a teacher of Aboriginal literature and Indigenous Studies for over two decades, and among his […]

Frank Heimans is a documentary filmmaker, oral history producer and interviewer. Since the 1970s he has recorded more than 1,000 oral history interviews and directed and produced over fifty television documentaries for his company, Cinetel Productions. He was the founding producer, writer, director and editor of Australian Biography (broadcast on SBS Television) and produced the […]

Alina Haque is our new membership intern. She is currently studying Political Science and English Literature at the University of Sydney and has worked and volunteered for a range of Australian non-for-profits in the Policy and Advocacy, Education, and Literature sectors.

Eunice Andrada is a Filipina poet and teaching artist. Her debut poetry collection Flood Damages won the Anne Elder Award (2018) and was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (2019).

Robin M Eames is a queercrip poet and historian living on Gadigal land. Their work has been published in Cordite, Overland, Meanjin, APJ, and Deaf Poets Society, among others. They are currently working on a PhD at the University of Sydney, examining histories of madness and trans pathologisation in 19th-20th century Australia.

Tracy Sorensen is the current Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. She is currently writing a cancer memoir from the point of view of her affected abdominal organs. Her novel, The Lucky Galah (Picador 2018) was longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin award. Now an “ostomate” […]

Omar Sakr is an award-winning Arab Australian poet, the son of Lebanese and Turkish Muslim migrants. His debut collection, These Wild Houses (Cordite, 2017) was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the Kenneth Slessor Prize. His new book, The Lost Arabs (UQP, 2019), has been shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the John Bray Poetry Award. […]