Owen Bullock is a poet specialising in haiku and experimental works. He is Chief Investigator for the Poetry and Wellbeing program (UC Hospital), Co-Investigator on the Defence Arts for Recovery, Resilience, Teamwork and Skills (ARRTS) Program, and Discipline Lead for Creative Writing & Literary Studies at the University of Canberra.
Oz Hardwick is a poet and academic, with particular interests in prose poetry, ekphrasis, and collaborative composition. His recent work has focused upon creative writing and neurodiversity, and his current work explores temporal and textual fragmentation in relation to autism. His most recent poetry collection is the chapbook Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2024). Oz is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University (UK).
Ella Kurz is a former midwife and current poet. She received the University of Canberra Stephen Parker medal for her PhD which explored how written memories can be used to understand how identities come into existence in the healthcare world – and how this understanding can lead to better healthcare experiences. She co-edited the poetry anthology What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing and is the author of the early reader, My Mother is a Midwife.
Irfan Master is an award-winning author of novels, shorts stories, poetry and plays. His debut novel, A Beautiful Lie, (Bloomsbury, 2011) was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book prize and the Branford Boase award for debut authors and translated into ten languages. His second novel for young adults, Out of Heart (Hot Key, 2017), was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. In 2019 he contributed an article highlighting the importance of greater representation in literature for young people that featured in Breaking New Ground, a round-up of British writers of colour produced by BookTrust and Speaking Volumes. Irfan is a passionate advocate for creative projects in the community and has developed programs and mentored young people in how to gain access to the creative arts. He has worked with English PEN, the British Council and the Arvon Foundation to deliver writing workshop and is currently writing a PhD on postcolonial literature and eternal recurrence.