Rebecca Olive
Rebecca Olive is a Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, where she studies how swimming and surfing shape our relationships to coasts and oceans. You can... Read More
Brenda Matthews
Brenda Matthews is a proud Wiradjuri woman. She lives with her husband, Mark, in Bundjalung country, Queensland. Brenda is a mother, a grandmother, a sister,... Read More
Karen Ingram
Karen Ingram is an author, writer, performer, celebrant, mistress of ceremony, and manager of Louis Joel Arts & Community in Altona. She self-published Lifting the... Read More
Chunxiao Qu
Chunxiao Qu is a Chinese-born artist and poet living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice is largely focussed on language, spanning various mediums including... Read More
Angela Altair
Journalist by trade, Bloomsbury tragic by obsession, Angela co-founded the festival and was its first President. Bringing the litfest to life 20 years ago indulged... Read More
Kate O’Boyle
Kate O’Boyle is an early career artist and researcher based between naarm/Melbourne and tarntanya/Adelaide. Kate’s practice considers the role materiality plays in world building and... Read More
Hoang Tran Nguyen
Hoang Tran Nguyen is a Naarm Melbourne based artist working in social practice and site-specific projects. In 2001 he established Bilo Artspace, a temporary hub... Read More
Dr Anna Parlane
Dr Anna Parlane is Lecturer, Art History and Theory, at Monash University where she teaches into the art history and curatorial practice programs. Her research... Read More
Jayne Tuttle
Jayne Tuttle is the author of Paris or Die (2020) and My Sweet Guillotine (2022). A graduate of Melbourne University and the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris, she has... Read More