Jul July

Trio is Geraldine Wooller's fourth novel. Her second novel, The Seamstress, was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award, the Western Australian Premier’s Award and long listed for The International Dublin Impac Award.

Wooller was born in Perth and started travelling at the age of twenty, living in London for two years, then later in Rome also for two years, and later in Sydney.

In London she worked in the Earl’s Court Exhibition building’s cafeteria, in the industrial canteen, dishing Yorkshire Pudding and then Spotted Dick onto plates for the workers.  Later she trained as a comptometer operator and earned her living thus for several years. In Rome in the late 1960s she worked as a bilingual secretary for an executive in an American company, where she ran up and down stairs in between taking down letters in almost indecipherable shorthand.

In the 1970s she took out a degree in Italian and Linguistics from The University of Western Australia and subsequently completed a Diploma in Education.  Since then she has worked in a number of administrative positions in Western Australian universities and as a teacher of European languages.  Still later she trained as a teacher of English as a Second Language and worked for some years as a teacher at Perth TAFE.

A. S. Patric is an award-winning author and creative writing teacher at the University of Melbourne. His story collection, Las Vegas for Vegans, was shortlisted in the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards for the Steele Rudd Award. He is also the author of The Rattler & other stories and the novella Bruno Kramzer. His debut novel Black Rock White City was published in April 2015 to wide critical acclaim.

Tracy Farr is a Melbourne-born, Perth-raised, New Zealand-based writer. Her debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Fremantle Press 2013) was longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award, shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Award and the Barbara Jefferis Award, and will be published in the UK (Aardvark Bureau) in early 2016. In July 2015 she’ll hold the inaugural Mildura Writers Festival Residency.

Sam Prendergast is a Melbourne-based freelance writer. She's a regular contributor to Frankie magazine, where she interviews interesting people and rants about her feelings. Her work has also been published in the Guardian, The Thousands and Voiceworks, amongst others. Currently, Sam is completing her Masters of Arts in history at Monash University.