Eleanor Limprecht is the author of four novels: The Coast, The Passengers, Long Bay and What Was Left, which was shortlisted for the 2014 ALS Gold Medal. She writes contemporary and historical fiction, essays, book reviews and short fiction. Her short stories have been in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin and Kill Your Darlings. She teaches Writing a Novel at the Faber Academy […]

Helen O’Neill is an award-winning journalist and author whose books are published in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and the UK. Her non-fiction books include Daffodil: The biography of a flower, A Singular Vision: Harry Seidler, and Florence Broadhurst – Her secret and extraordinary lives. A former staff journalist on the Sydney Morning Herald, the […]

Tiffany Tsao is the author of Under Your Wings (released in the US and UK as The Majesties) and erstwhile editor of the inaugural run of The Circular – a weekly newsletter spotlighting the best of Australian digital nonfiction. She also translates Indonesian fiction and poetry, for which she has received the 2023 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize […]

Judith Beveridge is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Sun Music: New and Selected Poems which won the 2019 Prime Minister’s poetry prize. She has taught poetry in schools and universities and in the public domain and was poetry editor for Meanjn 2005-2015.

Kristina Olsson’s memoir Boy, Lost (2013) won the Kibble Award, the NSW Premier’s Award for non-fiction, the WA Premier’s Award for non-fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for non-fiction, and was shortlisted for several others including the Stella Prize. Her other novels include In One Skin and The China Garden, which won the Barbara Jefferis […]

Sue Woolfe is the best-selling author of four novels: Painted Woman, (Random House) Leaning Towards Infinity (Pan Macmillan), The Secret Cure (UWA) and The Oldest Song in the World (UWA). She has adapted two of these to the stage, where they were performed professionally in major Australian theatres to critical acclaim and sell-out audiences, and […]

Emily Bitto is an award-winning Melbourne-based writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Her debut novel, The Strays, won the 2015 Stella Prize. She has a Masters in literary studies and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Melbourne, and has been teaching creative writing for over a decade.

Catherine Hill is managing editor at Penguin Random House in Sydney.

Zoe Walton is a publisher of books for young readers at Penguin Random House Australia. Zoe edits New York Times bestselling author John Flanagan, whose Ranger’s Apprentice and Brotherband series have sold fifteen million copies worldwide. She also publishes many popular and award-winning Australian authors, including Deborah Abela, Tristan Bancks, Fleur Ferris, Emily Gale, Tim Harris, Belinda […]