Damien Becker is the current NSW Poetry Slam Champion and a disability activist. He lives with cystic fibrosis and is a double-lung transplant recipient. She wasn’t religious was first published on his Instagram @seasaltskin.

Jacqueline Grace is an arts-based philosopher and a/r/tographic inquirer. She loves to use the arts to increase the breath and depth of our understanding of lived human experience. Visit Jacqui at www.jacquelinegrace.com.au.

Tim Grace is a part-time English teacher, university chaplain and Eastern Orthodox Subdeacon, which is as exotic as it sounds. He tries to co-homeschool his three children and lives in Dandenong. He goes to the market there and pretends his Spanish is better than it really is.

George Halasz is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University, as well as in private psychiatry practice. His special areas of interests include ADHD, Holocaust trauma and inter-generational trauma transmission and trauma informed care. www.halasz.com.au

Carolyn Masel is a Melbourne poet, who writes mostly in free verse. Her chapbook, A Book of Hours, focusses on the disadvantaged in inner Melbourne (Ginninderra Press, 2017) and her first full-length collection, Moorings, includes poems on public events and issues as well as autobiographical subjects (Ginninderra Press, 2019).

Ciara Moroney is a queer, Irish poet, who has recently completed a Master’s in Art Therapy and is currently working with at-risk youth in Naarm (Melbourne). She writes as she lives; reflectively, passionately and ever grateful to have discovered the solace that creativity brings. Find her on Instagram @nomadic_soul_of_mine.

David Munro a is poet who likes football and mathematics. He once came second in a cake baking competition where he was the sole entrant. Rejection comes in many forms, though sometimes you still get to eat a cake.  soulmarmalade.wordpress.com.