Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman
from Rockhampton in Central Queensland. Amy is a freelance
writer and journalist, and is currently completing a PhD at
the University of Queensland into media representations of violence
against Aboriginal women. Amy began her career straight out of
high school, completing a cadetship at the National Indigenous
Times (NIT) newspaper. She later became editor of NIT, and for
a short time political correspondent for NITV
News. Amy has also worked at Tracker Magazine, New
Matilda, Brisbane’s 98.9 FM – where she presented the ‘Lets
Talk’ current affairs show – and more recently BuzzFeed News
Australia.
Over the past four years, Amy has co-hosted the investigative
podcast ‘Curtain’ with human rights lawyer Martin Hodgson. The
podcast puts forth the case for innocence for Aboriginal man Kevin
Henry, who was wrongfully convicted in 1992. Amy has a strong
interest in writing about justice, culture and heritage and
feminism.
Matt Chun is an artist and writer, currently based on stolen
Tsleil-Waututh land in the settler colonial state of Canada. He
also divides his time between Naarm/Melbourne, Yuin land, and
Taipei. His work spans drawing, text, comics and picture books.
Matt is a current Research Fellow at the State Library of Victoria,
working towards the decolonisation of children’s literature. He is
also recipient of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art’s Writers
Program. His writing can be found in Overland Literary
Journal, Meanjin Quarterly, Runway Journal and Liminal Magazine. He
is currently writing for Art Monthly Australasia.
Matt is the author of picture books Australian Birds (2018),
Australian Sea Life (2019) and the forthcoming Australian Mammals
(2020), in collaboration with Little Hare Books.
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