October: Greg Foyster, Maria Takolander, Eleanor Limprecht and Michelle Li

Eleanor Limprecht is a novelist, book reviewer, PhD student and mother-of-two. She grew up in the United States, Germany and Pakistan but has settled in Sydney. Her first novel, What Was Left, is about a mother who breaks one of the oldest taboos and abandons her baby. Eleanor is currently working o... Read more

Greg Foyster is an environment journalist. His feature articles, news stories and opinion pieces have appeared in more than 15 different publications, including the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Big Issue,Crikey and G Magazine. His first book, Changing Gears, is about a 6500 kilometre cycling ... Read more

Michelle Li is a young Melbourne-based writer. She is a fiction editor at Voiceworks, creative subeditor at Lot’s Wife and editor of a medical student publication. Her work has been published online and in print, including an anthology by Penguin, and she was a recipient of the inaugural Monash Pr... Read more

Maria Takolander was born in Melbourne in 1973 to Finnish parents. She is the author of three previous poetry collections, including Ghostly Subjects (Salt, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. Her poetry appeared regularly in The Best Australian Poems and The Bes... Read more