Kate Cole-Adams is a writer and journalist. She lives with her family in Melbourne. WALKING TO THE MOON is her first novel, and was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript) in 2006. It was published by Text Publishing in 2008.
Jessie Cole was born in 1977 and grew up in an isolated valley in northern New South Wales. In 2009 she was awarded a HarperCollins Varuna Award for Manuscript Development, and her work has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, Island Magazine, and the Big Issue. Nowadays, she lives in her childhood home with her two sons.
Jessie’s debut novel, DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, was published by 4th Estate in 2012. Her next book, DEEPER WATER is HarperCollins lead title for August 2014.
Danielle Clode is the author of six non-fiction titles on topics ranging from megafauna to French explorers. Her first book, KILLERS IN EDEN, was made into an award winning documentary and has recently been reissued by Museum Victoria. VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS won the 2007 Nettie Palmer Prize for Non Fiction in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and has just been released in France by Autrement. PREHISTORIC GIANTS: THE MEGAFAUNA OF AUSTRALIA was shortlisted the the Children’s Book Council of Australia. In 2010 Danielle released A FUTURE IN FLAMES, a timely exploration of Australia’s bushfire history and how we chose to live with fire.
Danielle has a background in psychology and a doctorate in zoology and teaches scientific writing and non-fiction writing across Australia. She is an associate at the University of Melbourne and still publishes the occasional scientific paper, just to keep her hand in.
Jo Case is author of Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood, and Asperger’s (Hardie Grant, 2013) and program manager of Melbourne Writers Festival.
She has been senior writer/editor for the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing & Ideas, books editor of The Big Issue, associate editor of Kill Your Darlings and deputy editor of Australian Book Review.
Her reviews appear in the Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian, and Australian Book Review, and she has been published in The Monthly, Good Weekend, Best Australian Stories, Meanjin (online)and Sleepers Almanac.
Most recently, Jo has been published in the anthology Mothermorphosis: Australian Storytellers Write About Becoming a Mother (MUP, 2015).
Lorette Broekstra completed a Diploma of Art (Graphic Design) at Swinburne Institute of Technology. She then settled in the Netherlands for eight years where she worked as a freelance illustrator. In 1996 Lorette returned to Australia having become the mother of two children.
There are five books in Lorette’s Baby Bear series, the first of which, BABY BEAR GOES TO THE ZOO, won the Crichton Award for illustration in 2000. There are currently three books in her new series about Hugo the hero elephant.
Lorette’s latest books include COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO, written with Cecily Matthews, WHAT’S THAT NOISE, written with Sally Rippin, WHAT DAY IS IT MISSIE MOUSE written with Maisie Munro, WAHT MAKES MY MUM HAPPY and MY DAD AND ME, written with Tania Cox.
Lorette teaches illustration at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Tafe and the Council of Adult Education. She lives in Melbourne.
Tegan Bennett Daylight is a fiction writer, critic and lecturer in writing. She is the author of three highly acclaimed novels: BOMBORA (1996), WHAT FALLS AWAY (2001) and SAFETY (2006), as well as several books for children and teenagers. She has recently completed a long essay on the writing life, How Influence Works, and is at work on a collection of short stories, some of which have been published in Best Australian Stories, New Australian Stories, and Charlotte Wood’s collection Brothers and Sisters. J’aime Rose, her latest story, is collected in Kim Scott’s Best Australian Stories 2013.She lives in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, with her partner and children.
Josiane Behmoiras was born in Paris and migrated to Israel in 1961 with her mother. She left school at 15 and worked in a diamond factory to support them both. She later studied painting and cinema, before directing documentaries with Israeli Television. She migrated to Australia in 1985, where she held a range of unskilled jobs before moving into textile and fashion design.
Josiane started writing in English in the late nineties, while working as a cleaning lady. In 2004 she completed an MA in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. This became her first book,Dora B, a memoir of her mother.
Josiane lives in Melbourne.