Kerry Reed-Gilbert is a Wiradjuri woman from Central New South Wales. She has performed and conducted writing workshops nationally and internationally, was the inaugural Chairperson of the First Nations Australians Writers Network (FNAWN) 2012-2016. In 2013, she co-edited a collection of works with the US Mob Writing (UMW) group ‘By Close of Business,’ and was co-editor for the ‘Ora Nui’ Journal a collaborative collection between First Nations Australia writers and Maori writers. She is a former member of the Aboriginal Studies Press Advisory Committee and her poetry and prose have been published in many journals and anthologies nationally and internationally, including in the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature and Southerly. She is a member of the ACTUMW and FNAWN.

Prabhakar Palaka is an Assistant Professor at Swami Shraddhanand College, University of Delhi. His monograph, Politics of Writing: A Study of Dalits in Odia Literature is expected from Authors Press soon. His creative writing has been accepted for an Oxford University Press book project titled Dalit Writings from Eastern Regions.