Michael Earp

Michael Earp is a non-binary writer living in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), the editor of Everything Under The Moon: Fairy tales in a queerer light, Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories and co-editor of Avast! Pirate Stories from Transgender Authors with Alison Evans. With a teaching degree and a Masters in Children’s Literature, they have worked between bookselling and publishing for twenty […]

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Robert Edeson

Robert Edeson was born in Perth, Western Australia, and educated at Christ Church Grammar School, the University of Western Australia and the University of Cambridge. He has been a consultant anaesthetist and researcher, publishing in the neuroscience, biophysical and mathematical literatures.

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Monty Edwards

Monty Edwards is a retired pastor and educator who lives in Rockingham, WA. He is married with three children and five grandchildren. While working as a primary school teacher and subsequently a pastor, he began writing poems for special family events and explored Christian themes in Poems on the Way.  From 2016, Monty was a […]

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Lisa Ellery

Lisa Ellery was born in 1975 and raised on a farm near Esperance on Western Australia’s south coast. She studied law and arts at the University of Western Australia before returning to regional WA in 1998 to commence her career as a lawyer in the goldmining city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. She soon fell in love with […]

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Ron Elliott

Ron Elliott is a scriptwriter, director and academic. His directorial credits include a feature film, Justice, and episodes of ABC programs such as Dancing Daze Relative Merits and Studio 86. Ron has written for Home and Away Minty Wild Kat Ship to Shore and many more children’s television series. In 2001 he wrote the AFI […]

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Rica Erickson (d.2009)

Rica Erickson’s early illustrated books, Orchids of the West (1951), Triggerplants (1958), and Plants of Prey in Australia (1968) have inspired botanical artists for decades. These guidebooks combined wonderful illustrations, simplicity of expression and good scientific information which encouraged readers to be inquisitive and to look closely at plants in the Western Australian bush. Throughout […]

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Alison Evans

Alison Evans is the award-winning author of the YA novels Euphoria Kids, Highway Bodies and Ida. Their shorter work has been in the #LoveOzYA anthologies Hometown Haunts and Kindred. They work as a children’s specialist bookseller and live on unceded Wurundjeri Land.

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Julie Ewington

Julie Ewington is a writer, curator and broadcaster based in Sydney. An authority on contemporary Australian art, especially art by women, and contemporary art from South-East Asia, she has held both academic and curatorial positions in that field.

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