Victor Steffensen is an author, filmmaker, musician and traditional knowledge practitioner. He is a descendant of the Tagalaka people from North Queensland and respectfully acknowledges the European connections within his family tree.

Bob Brown is an environmental and social justice campaigner and former senator. A founding member of the Wilderness Society, from 1978 he led the successful campaign against the construction of the Franklin Dam. He served in Tasmanian state parliament for a decade, was leader of the Australian Green

Dr Debra Dank, a Gudanji/Wakaja and Kalkadoon woman from the Barkly Tablelands region on the Northern Territory/Queensland border, is an Enterprise Fellow with the Adelaide University. 

Natasha Morgan is a landscape architect, lifelong gardener, educator and author based in Daylesford in Victoria’s Central Highlands. She champions seasonal living and design led practice to grow gardens full of beauty and function.

Omar Musa is a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has released four poetry books (including Killernova), five hip-hop records (including The Fullness), His second novel, Fierceland, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.
 

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over fourteen books for adults and children, including the ABIA and Indie award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the critically acclaimed bestselling memoir The Hate Race, the self-illustrated picture book When We Say Black Lives Matter, out now

Tom Griffiths is a writer and historian whose work has won prizes in literature, history, science, politics and journalism, including the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and the Douglas Stewart and Nettie Palmer Prizes for Non-Fiction.

Jaclyn Crupi is a book editor, event moderator, awards judge and bookseller. She has worked in publishing since 2002. Jaclyn has written numerous books for both children and adults.

Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Peta Murray is a writer-performer and dramaturg. Her short fiction has been published in Sleepers Almanac and New Australian Stories and her essays in Sydney Review of Books, The Mekong Review and TEXT Journal.

Micaela Sahhar is a writer, researcher and Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication.
Her work is interdisciplinary in nature, and she draws in particular on  theories of decoloniality, questions of narrative appropriation

Wayne Marshall is an Australian writer and musician. Stories of his have appeared in Overland, Island, Going Down Swinging, and other places.

Lucy Van writes poetry and criticism. Her poetry collection, The Open (Cordite, 2021), was listed for the Stella prize and Mary Gilmore award, and highly commended by the Anne Elder award.

Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner and director of the award-winning Super Bloom, a singular plant practice that cultivates dynamic living beauty, diversity, and delight through living systems,

Jacinta Parsons is a broadcaster, radio maker, writer, and public speaker. She currently co-hosts The Friday Revue with Brian Nankervis on ABC Melbourne delivering Melbourne exactly what they didn't know they needed or wanted.

Dr Dani Netherclift is a writer and poet living on unceded Taungurung lands in the Victorian High Country, surrounded by mountains, where she resides with her husband, son, daughter and her elderly but literary Maine Coon named after Jane Eyre

Michelle Scott Tucker is the author of Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World – a biography of the woman who established the Australian wool industry.

Lulu Houdini is a Gamilaroi poet and midwife. Lulu’s work explores invisibility, memory, resistance, and liminality.