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Jack Latimore is an Indigenous researcher with the Centre for Advancing Journalism. He is currently involved in the development of several projects aimed at improving the quality of Indigenous representation and participation in the mainstream media-sphere. His journalism work has appeared in Koori Mail, Guardian Australia, Overland and IndigenousX.

Deserae Horswood is a writer, researcher and social psychologist. Her experimental non-fiction integrates critical theory and creative non-fiction, and in 2016 she won the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. She has a Masters in Writingfrom the University of Melbourne and has worked for The Lifted Brow and Melbourne University Publishing. Deserae is currently running a project with the University of New South Wales in Western Sydney, talking with newly-arrived refugee children and families about their resettlement experience.

Kathryn Ross lives in a small coastal town in Victoria, where she divides her time between writing poetry, and working as a registered nurse in aged care. Her poetry has been included in anthologies and online journals, and she has been commissioned to write and read poetry as part of local festivals. She has co-authored a collection of long-distance collaborative poetry, At the Edge of Forget, released in 2015 and written with fellow poets from Melbourne, Michigan and California. She writes daily short-form poetry which she shares on social media.

Madeline Bailey is a 20-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Melbourne, where she studies anthropology and creative writing. She grew up in Tasmania and won the Future Leaders Writing Prize while in Year 12 at Hobart College. Two of her short stories have since appeared in Voiceworks, and a third is upcoming in their summer 2016 issue. As Madeline alternates between critical and creative projects, her academic and poetic pieces tend to infiltrate and inform one another. She is interested in experimenting with how analytical and expressive forms blur.