Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist whose former employment has included: media monitor, political and archaeological photographer, graphic designer, Fiction Editor of Cosmos Magazine and Manager of Agog! Press. A 2012 Australia Council grant sent her to Florida to participate in Margaret Atwood’s The Time Machine Doorway workshop. She’s currently finishing a PhD in sci fi and cli fi. Her short story collection The Bride Price was published in 2013. Her debut novel, Lotus Blue, was published by Skyhorse in March 2017.

I wanted to be a writer from a very young age, and wrote my first proper short story at 14. I also wrote a novel that year, called “Skin Deep”‘, which I really need to type up. I started sending stories out when I was about 23, and sold my first one, “White Bed”", in 1993. Since then I’ve sold about 70 short stories, two short story collections and three novels. I’m an avid and broad reader but I also like reality TV so don’t always expect intelligent conversation from me.

Tansy Rayner Roberts is a fantasy and science fiction author who lives in southern Tasmania, somewhere between the tall mountain with snow on it, and the beach that points towards Antarctica. Tansy has a PhD in Classics (with a special interest in poisonous Roman ladies), and an obsession with Musketeers. You can hear Tansy talking about Doctor Who on the Verity! podcast. She also reads her own stories on the Sheep Might Fly podcast.

Catherine S. McMullen is a writer and film & TV professional, currently living in Melbourne. Her fiction work has been published in Nightmare Magazine, Aurealis Magazine, Interzone, Dark Tales, and others, and her non-fiction work includes articles for Non-Fiction Gaming and Reading for Australia. Her work has been reprinted in anthologies such as Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror and Focus 2013: Highlights of Australian Short Fiction. She was the youngest person to ever to sell a story to a professional science-fiction magazine, selling to Interzone at age 10. Recently, her short story ‘The Nest’ was nominated for an Australian Shadows Award from the Australian Horror Writers’ Association, and her short story ‘Monday-child’ was voted by Aurealis subscribers as ‘Best Story of 2013’. Catherine currently works full-time in film & TV industry, and has worked in various roles in both drama and reality. In 2015, her pilot ‘Living Metal’ was shortlisted for an AWGIE Award, Australia's top screenwriting award, for 'Best Unproduced Screenplay', as well as being shortlisted as a finalist in the AWGs ‘What Happens Next’ screenwriting competition. Her credits include upcoming Syfy series 'Childhood’s End', AACTA-award winning series 'Nowhere Boys', unscripted shows 'Real Housewives of Melbourne' and 'Formal Wars', and feature films 'Cut Snake' and 'Paper Planes'. She also works as a note-taker and researcher for TV writers’ rooms, and writes analysis and coverage for both scripts and prose.