Vanessa Giron is a Latinx writer and editor from Naarm/Melbourne. Her work explores identity, culture, and womanhood and has been published by Meanjin, Feminartsy and others. She is also a Small Screens Critic for the Big Issue, and has written reviews for Junkee, Kill Your Darlings and more. In 2018 Vanessa was an inaugural Featured Author for Djed Press and New Review Critic for Witness. Vanessa Giron is a proud member of West Writers Group with Footscray Community Arts Centre.

Brisbane born Yvette Henry Holt heralds from the Bidjara, Yiman and Wakaman Nations of Queensland. A multi-national award-winning poet, academic, editor, stand-up comedienne and photographer of Central Australian desert landscapes, Yvette has lived and worked in the greater region of the Australian Central Deserts for ten years. 

Josefina Huq is a creative writer and PhD candidate based in Melbourne. She is into place phenomena, memory, and anything that might involve icky feelings. You can cry to her short stories in publications such as Homer, GORE Journal and Alien She Zine. 

Nimity James studied writing at RMIT University. In 2016 she was awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship and was a finalist in the 2017 Newcastle Writers Festival joanne burns Microlit Award for her prose poem 'Anniversary', published in the Spineless Wonders Time anthology. She lives in Melbourne.

Adalya Nash Hussein is a writer, editor and educator. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, the Lifted Brow, the Suburban Review and Going Down Swinging. She has been shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize and has been an Emerging Writers' Festival Melbourne Recital Centre Writer in Residence. She is the Online Editor of the Lifted Brow and a nonfiction editor for Voiceworks.

Kaitlyn Plyley is a writer, poet and comedian based in Melbourne's inner north. She comes to Melbourne via Cairns, Perth, and Brisbane. Kaitlyn has been featured everywhere from triple j to frankie magazine to ABC TV's Get Krack!n. Her writing has been published by the Lifted Brow, the Sydney Morning Herald, Junkee, VICE and Seizure, among others. Her podcast Just A Spoonful interviews young people living with disability and/or chronic illness. Kaitlyn is herself disabled and lives with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

Cher Tan is a writer and critic in Birraranga/Melbourne, via Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Westerly, the Lifted Brow, Swampland and Overland, among others. She is the author of cultural criticism food/book journal Cooking The Books, and is Kill Your Darlings' 2019 New Critic.

Thabani Tshuma was born and raised in Zimbabwe, and has been living abroad for the greater part of the last decade. His work is deeply influenced by the myriad challenges faced by the diaspora, expatriates, and immigrants, simultaneously addressing awareness around mental health, addiction, and generational trauma.