Helen Garner is widely recognised as one of Australia's greatest writers. She is the winner of the 2006 inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction, the 2019 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the 2023 Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include This House of Grief, Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach and How To End A Story: Collected Diaries.
Chloe Hooper is an Australian author acclaimed for her compelling narratives in both fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of A Child's Book of True Crime, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Literature, The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island, The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire and Bedtime Story.
Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner, The Believer, Not Waving, Drowning, and On Peter Carey. She has won the Victorian Prize for Literature and other major nonfiction awards and been shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She holds a doctorate in criminal law and is admitted to practice law in New York and Victoria.