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About the Author

Indigo Bailey is a Tasmanian critic and fiction writer living in Naarm/Melbourne. She edits the film criticism publication Rough Cut and in 2023 she received the Island Nonfiction Prize for an essay about rain sound.

Alice Allan produces the Poetry Says podcast. Her books are The Empty Show from Rabbit Poets, which was commended in the Anne Elder Award, and the chapbook Blanks from Slow Loris. Her poems have appeared in Island, Australian Book Review, Rabbit, Griffith Review, Southerly, Westerly and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry.

Louise Carter is a Sydney poet whose work has appeared in Best Australian Poems (2012 & 2015), Cordite, Meanjin, Westerly and other publications. Her poem 'Hot Clouds' was highly commended in the 2018 Judith Wright Poetry Prize and in 2020 her poem 'History of Sadness' was highly commended in the Blake Poetry Prize. Louise's first collection Golden Repair was published in 2023 by Giramondo.

Noelle Janaczewska is a playwright, poet and essayist. The author of The Book of Thistles and the collection Scratchland, she is the recipient of multiple awards and fellowships, including the 2020 NSW Premier's Digital History Prize for Experiment Street, and a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale for her body of work as a dramatist. Noelle's recent productions include: The Past Is a Wild Party; Mrs C Private Detective and The End of Winter.

Vidyan Ravinthiran teaches at Harvard. His latest books are Asian/Other, a fusion of memoir with poetry criticism, and Avidya, his third book of verse.

Ursula Robinson-Shaw is a writer from Aotearoa, living in Naarm/Melbourne. Her recent work can be found in Sydney Review of Books, Paraphase and Going Down Swinging. She is co-director of sick leave.

Eirill Alvilde Falck is a Norwegian-born writer and translator who lives in the United States. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Hopkins Review, and Poetry Magazine. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, where she was later a Zell Fellow. She was a 20202022 Iowa Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa, where she completed a master's degree in Literary Translation. She received the Stanley Award for International Research for her work on translations of Edvard Munch's journals, and is the recipient of the John Wagner Prize and the Hopwood Award. Eirill is the co-founder of MQR: Mixtape, an imprint of Michigan Quarterly Review.