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Portrait of Alan Vaarwerk

Alan Vaarwerk

Alan Vaarwerk is the editor of Kill Your Darlings magazine. His writing and criticism has appeared in Griffith Review, Stilts, Readings Monthly and Writers Bloc. 
Portrait of Amanda Vanstone

Amanda Vanstone

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Amanda Vanstone is a former senior Australian politician.
Portrait of Amy Vuleta

Amy Vuleta

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Amy Vuleta has spent most of her bookselling career hosting bookclubs, panels, events and discussions about books, literature, publishing and ideas. She reads widely, is currently training to be a…
Portrait of Chi Vu

Chi Vu

Chi Vu was born in Vietnam and came to Australia in 1979. After studying at the University of Melbourne, she worked as a theatre director, dramaturge, writer, artistic director and…
Portrait of Claire Varley

Claire Varley

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Claire Varley grew up on the Bellarine Peninsula and lives in Melbourne. She has sold blueberries, worked in a haunted cinema, won an encouragement award for being terrible at telemarketing…
Portrait of Clara Vuletich

Clara Vuletich

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Clara Vuletich is a designer, consultant and educator who has worked in the sustainable fashion and textiles space for ten years. She has a design PhD in sustainable fashion/textiles with the MISTRA…
Portrait of Darcy Vescio

Darcy Vescio

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Darcy Vescio joined the Carlton women’s team as a marquee player in 2017 The 23-year-old full-forward started playing footy when she was five, going on to win three VWFL premierships…
Portrait of David Vann

David Vann

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David Vann is an internationally bestselling author published in nineteen languages. He is the winner of fourteen prizes, and his books (Legend of a Suicide, Caribou Island, …

Deb Verhoeven

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A writer, broadcaster, film critic and commentator, Deb Verhoeven is the author of more than 30 journal articles and book chapters. The most recent of her three books is Jane…
Portrait of Diane Vu

Diane Vu

Diane is an ex Production Designer and Stylist turned Screenwriter. Sick of having too many opinions and not enough power to voice them (as well as being paid once for…
Portrait of Dianne Vella-Brodrick

Dianne Vella-Brodrick

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Dianne Vella-Brodrick is an associate professor and director of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education. She is the research director…
Portrait of Dženana Vucic

Dženana Vucic

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Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, poet and critic. She has received the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship and a 2020-21 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship to work on an autotheoretical…
Portrait of Eben Venter

Eben Venter

Eben Venter is a novelist and short-story writer, originally from South Africa and now based in Lismore, New South Wales.
Portrait of Ellen van Neerven

Ellen van Neerven

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Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali and Dutch heritage. Their books include Heat and Light, Comfort Food and Throat.
Portrait of Emma Viskic

Emma Viskic

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Emma Viskic’s critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series has been published world-wide. Resurrection Bay won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and an unprecedented three Davitt Awards. It was…
Portrait of Eve Vincent

Eve Vincent

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Eve Vincent is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University. She is the co-editor, with Timothy Neale, of Unstable Relations: Indigenous people and environmentalism in contemporary Australia (UWAP…
Portrait of Gala Vanting

Gala Vanting

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'Whilst I’m aware that #notallfeminists are anti-sex work, there’s a pretty gaping chasm between "not being against" and being an ally.' Gala Vanting is a writer, sex worker advocate living…
Portrait of Gerard Van Dyck

Gerard Van Dyck

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Gerard’s career in dance has spanned 20 years. His practice integrates storytelling and humour into movement and choreography. He also teaches, reviews, and provides dramaturgy and discourse for dance. He…
Portrait of Gerard Vaughan

Gerard Vaughan

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Dr Gerard Vaughan was appointed director of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1999.
Portrait of Heidi Victoria

Heidi Victoria

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Heidi Victoria was elected to Victoria's State Parliament in 2006, to represent the people of Bayswater District in the Legislative Assembly In November 2009, Heidi was made Shadow Parliamentary Secretary…
Portrait of Jacob Varghese

Jacob Varghese

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Jacob Varghese is as a principal solicitor at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers. He supervises the firm’s Social Justice Practice, alongside his work in the class actions department. He is currently working…
Portrait of Jane Vadiveloo

Jane Vadiveloo

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Jane Vadiveloo is the founding CEO of Children’s Ground. She has a Masters in Forensic Psychology and has a 20-year history leading reform and services provision with communities experiencing extreme…
Portrait of Jenny Valentish

Jenny Valentish

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Jenny Valentish is a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald and the Saturday Paper, and former editor of Time Out Melbourne and Triple J’s Jmag She grew…
Portrait of Joanne van Os

Joanne van Os

Joanne van Os is a Darwin-based writer for children and adults. Her first book, 0utback Heart, was a best-selling memoir about life with her first husband, the 'Real Crocodile…
Portrait of Jon Vertigan

Jon Vertigan

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Jon Vertigan has been waking up South West Victoria on local radio station 3YB in Warrnambool for 7 years.
Portrait of Jon Von Goes

Jon Von Goes

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Jon Von Goes is a broadcaster, musician, RocKwiz Brains Trust member, registered Australian civil celebrant and captain of the RRR/PBS Megahertz Football Club.
Portrait of Jordan Vincent

Jordan Vincent

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Jordan Beth Vincent is a dance, circus and physical theatre critic for the Age, as well as contributing to a number of national, international and web-based publications.
Portrait of Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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Juan Gabriel Vasquez is a Colombian novelist and translator.
Portrait of Karthik Vijayanandam

Karthik Vijayanandam

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Karthik (He/Him) is a third culture individual with multiple, intersectional identities, who currently lives in Naarm. He is a multi-disciplinary educator who is passionate about empowerment of people, particularly Deaf…
Portrait of Kate van Hooft

Kate van Hooft

Kate van Hooft is the author of We See the Stars. She was born and raised in Melbourne to an Aussie mum and Dutch dad. She lives with her husband…
Portrait of Katelijn Verstraete

Katelijn Verstraete

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Katelijn Verstraete is currently the regional director, arts & creative industries at the British Council in East Asia. Before this, she was deputy director, cultural exchange at the Asia-Europe Foundation.
Portrait of Katharine Viner

Katharine Viner

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Katharine Viner is editor-in-chief of Guardian Australia and deputy editor of the Guardian worldwide.
Portrait of Leah Vandenburg

Leah Vandenburg

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Leah graduated from WAAPA in 1993. Her theatre credits include Grace for the Melbourne Theatre Company, Criminology for the Arena Theatre Company, The Country for B Sharp @ Belvoir Street; …
Portrait of Leena van Deventer

Leena van Deventer

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Leena van Deventer is a writer, game developer, and educator from Melbourne. In 2013 she co-founded WiDGET, a support group for women and non-binary game developers with over 800 members…
Portrait of Lenka Vanderboom

Lenka Vanderboom

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Lenka Vanderboom grew up in the Kimberley on her Yawuru homelands. She is engaged as a Teaching Artist and Coordinator of Melbourne Theatre Company’s First Peoples Young Artist’s Program and…
Portrait of Lorelei Vashti

Lorelei Vashti

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Lorelei Vashti is the author of Dress Memory: A Memoir of My Twenties in Dresses (2014) and How to Choose Your Baby’s Last Name (2016). Her writing has been…
Portrait of Lucy Valentine

Lucy Valentine

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Lucy Valentine is a Melbourne based comedy writer and enemy of the state. She writes regularly for SBS Comedy and co-hosts the Boonta Vista Socialist Club podcast.
Portrait of Mariam Veiszadeh

Mariam Veiszadeh

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Mariam Veiszadeh is a lawyer, community rights advocate and opinion columnist. She is a vocal advocate of the rights of the Australian Muslim community and, as a self-declared 'proud refugee', she is also a passionate…
Portrait of Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

Portrait of Mary Vallentine

Mary Vallentine

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Mary Vallentine is the Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne Recital Centre.
Portrait of Merriden Varrall

Merriden Varrall

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Dr Merriden Varrall is Director of the East Asia Program at the Lowy Institute. Before joining the Lowy Institute, Merriden was the Assistant Country Director and Senior Policy Advisor at UNDP…
Portrait of Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Michael Varcoe-Cocks

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Michael Varcoe-Cocks is Head of Conservation at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Portrait of Michael Veitch

Michael Veitch

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Michael Veitch is the author of three plays, Flak, Mystery in the Air and Hell Ship which have toured extensively across Australia. His ninth work, Turning Point, the story…
Portrait of Mitch Vane

Mitch Vane

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Mitch Vane has had a long career working as an illustrator and artist. She works in a variety of media, but is at her happiest drawing with a good old-fashioned…
Portrait of Nath Valvo

Nath Valvo

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Nath Valvo’s hilariously physical, high-energy comedy is impressing critics and winning crowds across the globe. Not many comedians can boast that their fan base includes TV royalty, but Nath has the…
Portrait of Niki Vincent

Niki Vincent

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As Commissioner, Dr Niki Vincent is responsible for overseeing implementation of the Gender Equality Act 2020 and plays a key leadership role in promoting gender equality in the Victorian community…
Portrait of Paul Verhoeven

Paul Verhoeven

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Paul F. Verhoeven is a writer, broadcaster and entertainer. A mainstay of the Australian media landscape, he has written for ABC News Online, IGN, Smith Journal and Yen Magazine…

Peter Vale

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Peter Vale is a professor of politics and humanities whose interests lie in social thought in South Africa, critical theory, and the future of the humanities. His recent publications include…
Portrait of PJ Vogt

PJ Vogt

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PJ Vogt hosts the podcast Reply All from Gimlet. Reply All is a thrice-a-month podcast that mixes narrative journalism with an editorial sensibility that favours weirdness, humour, and surprise. Every…
Portrait of Prithvi Varatharajan

Prithvi Varatharajan

Prithvi Varatharajan is a poet, literary audio producer, and literary/media scholar who lives in Melbourne. His collection Entries was published by Cordite Books in 2020. He is a commissioning editor…
Portrait of Salley Vickers

Salley Vickers

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Salley Vickers’ debut novel, Miss Garnet’s Angel was an international bestseller. Her fifth and latest novel is the acclaimed Dancing Backwards (2009) and her first collection of short stories, Aphrodite’s…
Portrait of Sam van Zweden

Sam van Zweden

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Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based writer interested in memory, food, mental health and the body. Her writing has been published by the Saturday Paper, ABC Life, Meanjin…
Portrait of Sam Vincent

Sam Vincent

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Sam Vincent is a freelance travel writer, investigative journalist and author of Blood & Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars. He is a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning…
Portrait of Samantha van Leer

Samantha van Leer

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Samantha van Leer is a junior in high school, who conceived the idea for her first novel, Between the Lines and pitched it to her mum (Jodi Picoult) while she…
Portrait of Sapan Verma

Sapan Verma

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Sapan Verma is one of India’s most popular and experienced stand up comedians. He's a co-founder of The East India Comedy, India’s leading comedy collective which has more than half a million…
Portrait of Silvi Vann-Wall

Silvi Vann-Wall

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Silvi Vann-Wall is an audio producer and podcaster, with a strong journalism background. She loves making weird and wonderful audio and is usually found with headphones on. She has lived…
Portrait of Son Vivienne

Son Vivienne

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Son Vivienne is a post-doctoral research fellow at RMIT University, working across digital self-representation, online activism, queer identities, and rhetorical strategies/feminist practices for speaking and listening across difference. Their work…
Portrait of Sophie Verass

Sophie Verass

Sophie Verass is a Sydney-based writer and online producer. She has written for SBS, VICE and Junkee and is currently writing and editing for NITV. In 2016, Sophie was a…
Portrait of Stephanie Van Schilt

Stephanie Van Schilt

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Stephanie Van Schilt is editor of The Lifted Brow and co-host of The Rereaders podcast. The former TV columnist for Kill Your Darlings, Stephanie's writing has featured in various…
Portrait of Susan van Wyk

Susan van Wyk

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Susan van Wyk is the Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria. Since joining the NGV she has worked on more than sixty exhibitions of Australian and…
Portrait of Voranai Vanijaka

Voranai Vanijaka

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Voranai Vanijaka is the editor in chief of GQ Thailand. He teaches political communication and intercultural communication at Thammasat University. From 2008 to May 2014, he was a political…
Portrait of Yanis Varoufakis

Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and co-founder of the DiEM25 movement for democracy, which he was re-elected to the Greek parliament to represent in 2019. A former Finance Minister of…