Melanie Saward is a proud descendant of the Bigambul and Wakka Wakka peoples. She is a writer, editor, and university lecturer based in Tulmur (Ipswich), Queensland. Her writing has been published in Flock, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, New Australian Fiction 2019, and she is the managing editor of Djed Press.

Danielle Binks is a Melbourne-based writer and literary agent with Jacinta di Mase Management.

In 2017, she edited and contributed to Begin, End, Begin, an anthology of new Australian young adult writing inspired by the #LoveOzYA movement, which won the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children (Ages 13+).

The Year the Maps Changed, Danielle’s bestselling middle-grade novel, was a 2021 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book, and is 2022-forthcoming in North America with Quill Tree Books. Her first solo YA novel The Monster of Her Age, released in 2021.

Danielle is also teaching the Writing Stream for the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University.

Jack Mitchell grew up in Sydney’s Inner West and spent five years at Sydney University studying performance, film, and English. He has worked in bookstores in Sydney and in London, and is also an actor who enjoys performing in plays when the city is not locked down.