Bronwyn Birdsall is a writer living on Bundjalung Country, in Northern New South Wales. Her first novel Time and Tide in Sarajevo was published in July 2022 by Affirm Press, and has been shortlisted for the 2023 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Her writing centres around contemporary life and finding meaning in the everyday.

Karen Wyld is an author and an Australia Reads 2021 Ambassador, living on the coast south of Adelaide, South Australia.