Elise Bohan is the author of the world’s first in-depth history of transhumanism. She also penned the introduction to the popular Dorling Kindersley book, Big History, and has taught Big History (a course spanning 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolutionary history) at Macquarie University alongside the founder of the field, Professor David Christian.

James Bradley is an author and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and The Penguin Book of the Ocean. His first book of non-fiction, Deep Water, will be published in 2024.

Shankari Chandran worked as a lawyer in the social justice field for over a decade. In 2017, she published her first two novels. Song of the Sun God (Perera-Hussein Publishing House) was short-listed for the Fairway National Literary Award (Sri Lanka, 2018). The Barrier (Pan Macmillan Australia) has been short-listed for the Norma K Hemming Award (2018) for […]

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.

By day, Aaron Dries works as a mental health and homelessness case manager. By night, he writes. His novels include House of Sighs, its sequel The Sound of His Bones Breaking, Where the Dead Go to Die (with Mark Allan Gunnells), A Place for Sinners, and The Fallen Boys. His short fiction has been published […]

Brendan Fredericks. Book head. Drinker. Word wrangler. Wannabe Muay Thai fighter. Publicist. Literary agent. Author manager. Director of BFredericksPR. Born and raised in Balmain, Brendan still lives in Sydney.

Michael Gillings is a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University. His primary research area is evolutionary genetics, but he publishes and lectures on diverse topics, including the Anthropocene, biological diversity and conservation, the existential threats of digital technology, the human microbiome and the evolution of antibiotic resistance. His human biology classes attract more […]

Sam Hawke has wanted to write books ever since realising as a child that they didn’t just breed them in libraries. She is a lawyer by day, teaches Japanese jujitsu by night, and lives in Canberra with her husband, two miniature ninjas and two idiot dogs. Her debut epic fantasy, City of Lies, was released […]

David Henley is director and publisher at Brio Books, and head of the Fantastica imprint. He is the author of a futuristic thriller, The Hunt for Pierre Junior (The Pierre Junior Omnibus).

For ten years, Mitchell put off his dream of writing, then he quit his job and wrote A Crucible of Souls, winner of the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. He now writes full-time, has published 12 novels, and is eternally grateful to the readers who took a chance on an unknown self-published author. […]

Robert Hood is an award-winning writer of various forms of speculative fiction, including horror, dark fantasy, weird, crime, and science fiction. Once referred to as “Aussie horror’s wicked godfather,” Robert’s most recent book is Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories, a massive work that covers his lengthy career, which was declared winner of the 2015 […]

Dionne Lister is USA Today’s bestselling fantasy and cozy mystery author. A Sydneysider, editor, avid reader, lover of good food and cats, she holds an associate degree of creative writing and self-published her first novel in 2012. She has since published numerous novels and still has her sanity, or so she likes to believe.

Catherine McKinnon is an award-winning writer of novels, plays and short stories. Her most recent novel, Storyland, was shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, the 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award and the 2018 Voss Literary Prize, longlisted for the 2018 Indie Book Awards, and was named one of ABC TV’s The Book Club’s Five of the Best in […]

Margaret Morgan has worked as a solicitor in criminal law, as a screenwriter, and in biology. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals including Meanjin, while her works for stage (librettos for music theatre) have been performed at major Australian arts festivals. She has won an international popular science writing award. Her speculative fiction […]

Abigail has run Bothersome Words since 2004. She has edited for Australian publishers including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Allen and Unwin, and Echo Publishing, as well as UK publishers including Angry Robot, Hachette and Gollancz, and small press in the USA. She works regularly with emerging and self-publishing writers as an […]

Shauna O’Meara is a three-time Aurealis Award finalist whose stories have been published in Interzone, Cosmos Magazine, On The Premises and Everything Change as well as several Australian anthologies.

Mykaela Saunders is a Koori and Lebanese working-class, queer creative and critical writer, and researches Indigenous Futurisms at the University of Sydney where she also teaches Indigenous Studies seasonally. She was born in her ancestral Dharug lands in Sydney’s west, and grew up between there and Tweed Heads as part of the Minjungbal-Nganduwul community. She […]

Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist. Career highlights include attaining a PhD in science fiction and climate fiction, five years as fiction editor of Cosmos Magazine, running Agog! Press, studying with Margaret Atwood, 75 published short stories, a collection and a far future novel, Lotus Blue. She’s a regular panellist and […]

Keith Stevenson is the author of the SF thriller Horizon (HarperCollins), publisher with coeur de lion publishing, past editor of Aurealis Magazine and Dimension6 and host of the Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast. His new novel Traitor’s Run, the first book in The Lenticular space opera trilogy, is out on 1 October 2023.

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 […]

Based in Sydney, Kyla Ward has written short fiction, articles and poetry, including Stoker, Ditmar and Rhysling nominees, and won one-third of an Aurealis Award for her co-written novel, Prismatic. An actor (in Sydney’s only Grand Guignol theatre) and occasional playwright, she has travelled widely and rhymed adventurously. Her interests include history, occultism and scaring […]

Multi-award winner Kaaron Warren has published five novels and seven short story collections. She’s sold over 200 short stories to publications big and small around the world and has appeared in Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best anthologies. She was guest of honour at World Fantasy, Stokercon, and Geysercon.