Amanda Niehaus is an Australian-American biologist and writer. Her work can be found in AGNI, Creative Nonfiction, The Writer, NOON Annual, Best Australian Essays, and more; were nominated for the Pushcart Prize by CN and AGNI; and she won the 2017 VU Story Prize. Her widely-acclaimed first novel, The Breeding Season (Allen & Unwin, 2019), explores evolutionary trade-offs between breeding and longevity, mating conflict, and the strange lives of northern quolls—in the context of a Brisbane couple struggling with great loss; it was a Queensland Literary Award finalist and named a Best of 2019 by the Australian Book Review. 

Jessica White is the author of the award-winning A Curious Intimacy and Entitlement, and a hybrid memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud, which won the 2020 Michael Crouch Award for a debut work of biography and was shortlisted several major awards, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Jessica has received funding from Arts Queensland and the Australia Council for the Arts and has undertaken residencies and fellowships in Hobart, Katoomba, Rome and Munich. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of South Australia.