John Kinsella is the author of many books of poetry, fiction and criticism. He has also written for the stage. He is a frequent collaborator with other poets, critics, fictionalists, artists, musicians, labourers, activists and friends. Recent fiction includes Tide (Transit Lounge, 2013) and Crow’s Breath (Transit Lounge, 2015); recent poetry includes Jam Tree Gully (WW Norton, 2012), Sack (Picador and Fremantle Press, 2014), Firebreaks (WW Norton, 2016) and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (Picador, 2016); recent criticism includes Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley (ed. Niall Lucy, Liverpool University Press, 2010) and Polysituatedness: A Poetics of Displacement. He has edited many anthologies including the Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. John Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Sustainability at Curtin University.

Tracy Ryan has published four novels, the latest of which is Claustrophobia (Transit Lounge, 2014), which has also been translated into Italian. The most recent of her eight books of poetry is Hoard (Whitmore Press, 2015). She has twice received the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for poetry (for The Willing Eye, 2000, and The Argument, 2011, both from Fremantle Press) and her work has received other awards including the Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize, and the Times Literary Supplement’s Poems on the Underground Competition. The Water Bearer will be published by Fremantle Press in 2018. She has worked in libraries, bookselling, editing, and community journalism, and has taught at many universities. She has a strong interest in languages and translation.