Miriel Lenore is an Adelaide poet whose six books frequently focus on the interrelation of people and place. Her twenty-one years in Fiji and twenty years visiting a community in the Ngaanyatjarra lands have influenced her work. travelling alone together: in the steps of Edward John Eyre (1997) has featured twice on the ABC PoeticA programme. sun wind & diesel (1997) has been a text at the Universities of Adelaide and Cologne. drums and bonnets (2003) and the Dog Rock (2005) celebrate two pioneer immigrant women in her family. in the garden (2007), set in the Adelaide Botanic Garden, was part of the Garden’s 150^th anniversary celebrations.

Louise Crisp is a poet, essayist and environmental activist. Poetry collections include: Ruby Camp: a Snowy River series (Spinifex Press 1998); pearl & sea fed (Hazard Press NZ 2004), shortlisted for the 2005 NSW Premier's Award - Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize; uplands (Five Islands Press 2007). A multimedia version of her long poem Grasses was developed with support from Arts Victoria and the ABC Regional production Fund and broadcast on ABC RN's 'Poetica' program in 2009. An essay Holding Pattern was runner-up in the 2009 Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing prize, published in 'Island' #118 and 'Wildtimes' 2009.
In 2010 Louise received an Arts Victoria grant to develop a series of essays on the Snowy River. She lives in East Gippsland.