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 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 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 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

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 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 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 is Lecturer, Art History and Theory, at Monash University where she teaches into the art history and curatorial practice programs. Her research... Read More

Irma Gold is an award-winning author and editor based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her debut novel, The Breaking, won the Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship and the Canberra... Read More

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