David McCooey Author & Editor

David McCooey is the author of the prize-winning Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography (1996/2009). He has published widely on Australian life writing and poetry, and he is also a prize-winning poet and editor.

Maria Takolander is the author of Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground (2004), as well as numerous scholarly essays on magical realism and theories of creativity. She is a prize-winning fiction writer and poet.