Robbie Melville is an award-winning Australian composer and guitarist whose work spans jazz, contemporary classical, folk and improvised music.

Andy Jackson is a poet and essayist. His 2021 collection Human Looking won the ALS Gold Medal and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry.

Ilka Tampke is an award-winning author, academic and teacher. She teaches creative writing at RMIT University, La Trobe University and the Faber Academy, and has recently completed a PhD in plant poetics at La Trobe University.