Ruth Mary McIver is a Dublin-born, Melbourne-based crime writer who grew up in Perth, Western Australia and the US. She is represented by The Story Factory. Ruth received her Ph.D. in 2019 from Curtin University.Ruth’s first (unpublished) novel, Nothing Gold, was runner up in the inaugural Banjo Awards, with Harper Collins (2018) and was selected …
Jacqueline ‘Rock’ Bublitz is a writer, feminist, and arachnophobe, who lives between Melbourne, Australia and her hometown on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Author Website Stand AloneBefore You Knew My Name (2021)Leave the Girls Behind (2024)
Born in Melbourne and brought up in Sydney, Alison Booth spent over two decades studying, living and working in the UK before returning to Australia. Her fiction awards include a Varuna Longlines Fellowship from the Eleanor Dark Foundation and the Highly Commended Award in the 2011 ACT Book of the Year Award. Alison is also …
B.M. Allsopp grew up in suburban Sydney and picked up an Arts degree and a thirst for exotic adventure. She signed up to work as a primary school teacher in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for two years which ended up lasting a decade. She later taught English at the University of PNG before returning to …
Stephen is an Australian-born writer, TV producer, kayaker and traveller who now plots crime fiction from his garret overlooking the Tamaki River in Auckland. Melbourne Spotlight Mystery seriesTugga’s Mob (2019)Boxed (2021)Kaikoura Rendezvous (2023)
Susan White is a doctor and a writer based in Northcote, Melbourne, Victoria. As a clinical geneticist, Susan hunts for answers to undiagnosed genetic conditions in children. Shortlisted for the Kill Your Darlings’ Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2017. Stand AloneCut (2022)
Born in Melbourne, SD Hinton worked as an anaesthetic nurse within the public health system before moving into health education. She has travelled extensively and unconventionally and spent a year living in a loft apartment in Istanbul writing and learning Turkish. She now lives in Western Victoria and writes full time, having overcome a lifetime …
Bronwyn Hall never intended on being a writer. Her career has been spent working in health and community services, spanning aged care, disability and mental health. She has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature (and Psychology-for the day job) and she comes from a family of passionate readers. Born and bred in Australia, Bronwyn has …
Lyn Yeowart is a professional writer and editor with more than 25 years of experience in writing and editing everything from captions for artworks to speeches for executives. She grew up in rural Victoria but is now happily ensconced in Melbourne, where there is very little mud, but lots of books. Author Website Stand AloneThe …
Bronwyn Birdsall grew up in Sydney. At the age of twenty-four, she moved to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and worked as an English teacher. The four years she spent there provided the inspiration for her first novel, Time and Tide in Sarajevo. Her writing centres around contemporary life and finding meaning in the everyday. Bronwyn writes …