Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her writing has been awarded the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Her debut poetry collection DROPBEAR is forthcoming with University of Queensland Press. Born and raised in Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung nation.

Cassandra Atherton is an award-winning writer and scholar of prose poetry. She was a Visiting Scholar in English at Harvard University in 2016 and a Visiting Fellow in Literature at Sophia University, Tokyo, in 2014. Her most recent books of prose poetry are Leftovers (forthcoming) and Pre-Raphaelite (2018). She is currently working on a book of prose poetry on the atomic bomb with funding from the Australia Council. Cassandra co-wrote Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton UP, forthcoming) and co-edited The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry (Melbourne UP) with Paul Hetherington. She is a commissioning editor for Westerly magazine and series editor for Spineless Wonders.

Kent MacCarter is the author of three poetry collections – In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009), Sputnik’s Cousin (Transit Lounge, 2014) and California Sweet (Five Islands Press, 2018) – as well as two chapbooks, Ribosome Spreadsheet (Picaro Press, 2011) and Polyvinyl chloride (Under the Mountain Press, 2017). He was editor of Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home (Affirm Press, 2013), a non-fiction collection of diasporic memoir. He is managing editor of Cordite Poetry Review and publisher of Cordite Books.

Alvin Pang is a poet and editor based in Singapore. Featured in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English and the Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, he has been published internationally in more than twenty languages. As anthologist, he has curated numerous volumes of Singaporean literature, including: No Other City: The Ethos Anthology of Urban Poetry, Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore, and Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia. His latest titles include WHAT HAPPENED: Poems 1997-2017 and UNINTERRUPTED TIME (Recent Work Press: Australia, 2019). He completed a PhD in writing practice with RMIT University in 2020.

David Stavanger is a poet, performer, cultural producer, editor and lapsed psychologist. His poetry collection The Special (UQP, 2014) won several small-medium awards and he is the co-editor of SOLID AIR: Collected Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word (UQP, 2019). His new collection is Case Notes (UWAP, 2020). These days he lives between the stage and the page.