Trent Maxwell is better known as Lifeguard Maxi from Bondi Rescue, the youngest ever professional lifeguard to patrol Australia’s world famous Bondi Beach. Not only beloved by Aussies, Bondi Rescue is broadcast in close to 100 countries – including via Netflix US – and as one of Bondi Rescue’s most popular characters Maxi [...]
Heather McNeice was born in Northern Ireland and moved to Australia in 2006. She is a practising lawyer based in Noosa and is married with three children. Heather has long been captivated by Bhutan. On her first trip there in 2010, she was inspired to support a girls’ education program established by Bhutanese [...]
Emma Middleton is a picture book author, illustrator, children’s performer and former ballerina who lives near Noosa, Queensland. After a career in performing arts, during which time she danced for the Vienna Ballet, she returned to Australia to direct and teach at The Brighton Dance Academy. Emma retired from teaching dance to follow her [...]
Heath McKenzie lives and works in Melbourne, and has illustrated many books for children (most recently the Do Not Open This Book series by Andy Lee and Tim Cahill’s Tiny Timmy series). When he’s not drawing, Heath is busy helping to raise a little family with his lovely wife, collecting unnecessary masses of [...]
New Zealand-born Tony Martin was a writer and performer on cult TV comedies The D-Generation and The Late Show, one half of radio’s Martin/Molloy, and the creator of Get This. He wrote and directed the movie Bad Eggs, and appeared in The Castle, Crackerjack, Kath & Kim and Thank God You’re Here. He [...]
Andy Muir is a television screenwriter with credits ranging from Neighbours and Home and Away to comedy series Thank God You’re Here. As a member of the writing team for the hit franchise Underbelly, crime stole his heart. Nominated for an Australian Writers Guild Award for Underbelly Squizzy, he also adapted that TV [...]
Kelsey Montague is an international street artist who believes that art should not be separated from the human experience, but that the human experience should have a hand in creating the art itself. Kelsey has painted large scale, interactive street murals in six countries on three continents. Each piece has provided an opportunity for thousands [...]
Unlike Olive Black, Alex (Lee) Miles never quite made it as an international mega movie star. She did, however, try her hand at writing. Since her first play was published while she was at high school, she’s written for audiences with TV shows, plays and pantomimes; for brides with the book Sixty Secrets for a [...]
Craig McGregor is a writer, journalist and academic. He is the prize-winning author of twenty-three books, including two novels, a collection of short stories, four books of essays, and several books on Australian society. Titles by Craig McGregor
Catriona Menzies-Pike is the editor of the Sydney Review of Books. Her career in online media includes stints as managing editor of pioneering news and current affairs website New Matilda and arts editor ofThe Conversation. She’s taught literature, film, journalism and cultural studies to undergraduates across Sydney since 2001. In 2007 she ran her [...]
