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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]