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  1. Eileen Harrison

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    Eileen Harrison was born in 1948 at Lake Tyers Mission Station. She is a Kurnai woman, an artist and a respected elder. As a mature-aged student, she studied Art and Design at Gippsland TAFE in Morwell, winning the 2002 Training Award, and went on to complete certificates in Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Design. Subsequently she received accolades for her work in three solo exhibitions. In 2004 she received the NAIDOC Award for Baw Baw Shire Artists, and in 2007 received the RMF Recognition for Artistic & Cultural Heritage along with a certificate of recognition for her contribution to the arts. Her paintings are represented in schools and offices throughout Gippsland, and she has been commissioned to produce works for Victorian Departmental offices. Two of her works adorn the walls in Queens Hall Parliament House (Melbourne). One of her paintings is immortalised on the cover of the Department of Justice’s Victorian Aboriginal Agreement, Our People Our Country.

    “I combine a sense of purpose with life experiences in attaining my personal achievements within my art. I have come a long way since the days on the Mission overcoming many barrier including racism, dispossession and deafness.”

    Her book BLACK SWAN L A Koori Woman’s Life was written with Carolyn Landon.

     

  2. Rosalie Ham

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    Rosalie Ham is a failed rouseabout but a successful writer now based in Melbourne. With sales of over 55,000 copies her first novel THE DRESSMAKER is now an Australian classic. Kate Winslet and Judy Davis will star in the screen adaptation, whcih will be produced by Sue Maslin (Japanese Story).

    Rosalie has also had stories published in Meanjin, The Age, The Bulletin and *Invisible Ink. When she is not writing, Rosalie teaches literature. Her new novel, THERE SHOULD BE MORE DANCING, has been published by Random House Australia.

  3. Mem Fox

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    Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970. She was an Associate Professor in Literacy Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide until her early retirement in 1996.

    Mem is Australia’s most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the bestselling children’s book ever in Australia, with sales of over two million. And in the USA, Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Time for Bed is on Oprah’s list of the twenty best children’s books of all time.

    Mem has written 29 picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the bestselling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children. Over the years she has received a huge number of awards and accolades in Australia, including two honorary doctorates. She is now an influential, hectic, grey-haired international consultant in literacy, who has visited the States over eighty times, although she pretends to be a redhead who sits around writing full time.

    Mem’s recent picture book Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes is a New York Times Bestseller and is published by Harcourt in the USA. It is published by Walker Books in the UK and Penguin Australia.

    Let’s Count Goats!, was published by Beach Lane Books USA in October 2010 and Penguin Australia in November 2010 and her newest book, Yoo-Hoo, Ladybird was published in Penguin in 2013 and in the USA as Yoo-Hoo, Ladybug by Beach Lane Books.

  4. Richard Evans

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    Richard Evans is a journalist and an academic. He has worked on newspapers and legal magazines, and was a lecturer in journalism at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). His work has appeared in HQ, Quadrant, the Age,Overland and The Republican, and been broadcast on ABC Radio National. He is completing a PhD in history.

    Richard’s first book THE PYJAMA GIRL MYSTERY was published in 2004 and in 2007, CONSTRUCTING AUSTRALIA was published by Melbourne University Press. His book, DISASTERS THAT CHANGED AUSTRALIA was published by Victory Books in 2009.

    He lives in Melbourne.

  5. Mike Dumbleton

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    Mike Dumbleton is an English and Literacy Coordinator at an Adelaide High School. He has also worked as a Literacy Curriculum Officer for the South Australian Education Department. In addition to children’s books, he has written a range of educational texts and has also had his work adapted for stage and television.

    Five of Mike’s picture books have been selected as ‘Notable Books’ by the Australian Children’s Book Council and Passing On was shortlisted for the 2002 Book of the Year Awards. Mike’s picture book Muddled-up Farm was selected as the National Simultaneous Storytime book for 2004. Watch out for Jamie Joel is Mike’s first young adult fiction title and was shortlisted in the 2004 Adelaide Festival Awards for Children’s Literature. His latest books are You Must be Joking and Cat.

    Cat was adapted for the stage by Windmill Performing Arts in 2007.

    In 2005 Mike received a Minister’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Improving Literacy. He is currently based in New York.

  6. Peter Doherty

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    Peter Doherty’s pioneering research into human immune systems earned him the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1996.

    In 1988, after working in Philadelphia and again in Canberra, he was Head of the Department of Immunology at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee (1988 – 1998) and was involved in research into childhood cancer.

    He was Australian of the Year and awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1997.

    In 2002 he took up an appointment as Laureate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. He now divides his life between the US and Australia, where he is helping to promote national policy initiatives focused on the future of science, innovation and higher education.

    Doherty has said that his success as a scientist stems from “a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art, to experimental results. I like complexity, and am delighted by the unexpected.”

    Professor Doherty’s books include THE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO WINNING THE NOBEL PRIZE (2006), LIGHT HISTORY OF HOT AIR (2008), and SENTINEL CHICKEN: WHAT BIRDS TELL US ABOUT OUR HEALTH AND OUR WORLD (2012).

    His primary focus in writing for a broader (rather than a scientific) audience is to intrigue, inform and entertain about aspects of the natural world and how we interrogate it. His subtext is to put the case that the future of humanity depends on our engaging with evidence based reality (rather than convenient fantasies).

  7. Garry Disher

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    Garry Disher has a BA from Adelaide University, an MA from Monash University and a Dip. Ed. from La Trobe University.

    In 1978 he was awarded a fellowship to the creative writing school at Stanford University in California. On his return to Australia he taught creative writing part-time, becoming a full-time writer at the end of 1987. He has now written over 40 books, many of which have been translated. His works include literary, crime and children/young adult novels and story collections, history texts, anthologies and writers’ handbooks.

    Garry’s novel The Sunken Road was nominated for the Booker Prize. He is twice the winner of the German Crime Fiction Award. The Bamboo Flute won the CBC Children’s Book of the Year Award. The Divine Wind was the winner of the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature, and has sold over 100,000 copies in Australian and foreign editions.

    Garry’s most recent book is BITTER WASH ROAD, published by Text Publishing.

    Garry lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

  8. Daryl Dellora

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    Daryl Dellora is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He is the recipient of an Australian Human Rights Award for his film Mr Neal is Entitled to be an Agitator, about the life of High Court justice Lionel Murphy, and a Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Television Festival for The Edge of the Possible – a film about Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon.

    Daryl has been an Australian Film Commission documentary fellow, and in 2005 was awarded a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Centre. He wrote and directed the film Michael Kirby: Don’t forget the justice bit (2010) for ABC-TV, has made films about the Governor-General of Australia and the High Court, and has worked for Film Australia and SBS-TV. Daryl co-produced the 2006 feature film Hunt Angels (winner of the AFI Award for Best Documentary) and was an executive producer of Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (2008). MICHAEL KIRBY: LAW, LOVE AND LIFE was his first book and UTZON AND THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, his second book, was published by Penguin in 2013. Daryl is a director of the film production company Film Art Doco and filmartmedia.com, and lives in Melbourne.

  9. Hanifa Deen

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    Hanifa Deen is a third generation Australian, of Pakistani-Muslim ancestry. She is a human rights activist and a social commentator. Her career has included a number of high profile positions including: Deputy Commissioner of the Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission of Western Australia, Director on the Board of SBS, (Special Broadcasting Services) and Hearing Commissioner with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

    Hanifa’s first book, Caravanserai: Journey among Australian Muslims won a New South Wales Premier’s Literature Award in 1996 and was also short-listed for the Nita B Kibble Award. Her second book Broken Bangles, on the lives of women in Pakistan and Bangladesh was shortlisted in 1998 for the West Australian Premier’s Award. Another book, The Crescent and the Pen was published by Praeger in the U.S.A in 2006. The widely acclaimed The Jihad Seminar was published in 2008.

    Hanifa’s new book, Ali Abdul v The King was recently published by University of Western Australia Press. She lives in Melbourne.

  10. Alison Croggon

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    Alison Croggon is a poet and fantasy novelist who has also done extensive theatre work. She was poetry editor for Overland Extra (1992), Modern Writing (1992-94) and Voices (1996) and was founding editor of the literary arts journal Masthead. In 2000 she was the Australia Council writer in residence at Cambridge University, UK.

    Her poetry has been published widely and internationally. Her first book of poems, This is the Stone, won the 1991 Anne Elder and Dame Mary Gilmore Prizes. Her second book of poems, The Blue Gate, was released in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Poetry Prize. Alison’s theatre work includes operas, plays and many of her poems have also been set to music by a variety of composers.

    Croggan’s much-loved and acclaimed quartet, The Books of Pellinor — described as ‘fantasy-tastic’ by one newspaper — comprises The Gift (published as The Naming in the USA), The Riddle, The Crow and The Singing. See http://booksofpellinor.blogspot.com The books have been published in Australia, the UK, the USA, Germany and Spain, and will soon be released in Portugal and Poland. Audio editions of the quartet have been produced.

    Alison’s YA novel, BLACK SPRING, has been publihsed in Aust.

    Alison lives in Melbourne.