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ANNIE RASER-ROWLAND is
a graduate of horticulture and
permaculture certificates, has
worked at Melbourne nurseries,
performed urban edible garden
design and worked on permaculture
systems in Tanzania. As a full-blown
plant nerd with a passion for
questioning modern food equations,
she started investigating wild and
other undervalued foods, was
recruited by the rich pleasures of
foraging and gleaning, and hasn’t
stopped learning since.
MARK SMITH lives on Victoria’s
Surf Coast where he writes and
runs outdoor education programs
for young adults. His writing has
won a number of awards and
has appeared in Best Australian
Stories, Review of Australian
Fiction and the Big Issue. The
Road to Winter is his first book,
longlisted for the Indie Book
Award for Young Adult, 2017.
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JOCK SERONG lives and works
on the far southwest coast of
Victoria. Formerly a lawyer, he
is now a features writer, and
was the editor of Great Ocean
Quarterly. His first novel, Quota,
won the 2015 Ned Kelly Award
for Best First Crime Novel. His
most recent novel is The Rules of
Backyard Cricket.
DR REBE TAYLOR is a historian
specialising in Tasmanian
anthropology and archaeology.
She first encountered Tasmanian
Aboriginal history on a beach on
Kangaroo Island, South Australia,
hearing stories about the women
who had been taken there by
sealers. She has been trying
to understand the history of
Tasmanian Aboriginal diaspora,
loss, rediscovery and endurance
ever since.
DR ANNE BEGGS-SUNTER is
an historian in the Collaborative
Research Centre in Australian
History at Federation University
Ballarat. Her academic interests
are in Australian social, cultural
and political history. Her special
interests relate to Ballarat and
its heritage conservation, and
the significance of the Eureka
Stockade. DR JOSEPH M. CHEER is
lecturer at the National Centre
for Australian Studies, Monash
University and directs the
activities of the Australia and
International Tourism Research
Unit. His research and writing
draws from transdisciplinary
perspectives especially human
geography, cultural anthropology
and political economy with a
focus on the Asia-Pacific region. ROGER CLARK is the Collection
Development Librarian at
Federation University Australia.
Previously he has worked
at Victoria, Swinburne and
Monash Universities, and at
the State Library of Victoria,
in purchasing and collection
management. One of a family
of bibliophiles, he has a large
personal collection of books,
concentrating on Australian
poetry, military history and
exploration.
TIM HARRISON works within the
Faculty of Education and Arts at
Federation University Australia.
Tim has also worked as a ‘social
consultant’ developing social
enterprises a nd engaging in
community development. Tim’s
work seeks to understand and
interpret aspects of life in rural
and regional Australia and the
lives of young people, particularly
how they connect to education. LEANNE HOWARD takes a
community-centred approach
to writing community histories
which draws on oral testimony to
locate the hidden histories and
forgotten voices. Most recently,
Leanne is author of Looking Back
as Well as Forward: A History of
Ballarat Community Health. This
community history brings to life
the people and events of 40 years
of community health in Ballarat. JENNIFER LAING is a La Trobe
University based academic Associate
Professor and co-editor of the
Routledge Advances in Events
Research series and a member of
the Editorial Boards of Journal of
Travel Research, Tourism Analysis
and Tourism Review International.
Her research interests include travel
narratives, the social dimension
of events, health and wellbeing,
heritage tourism and gastronomic
tourism. Jennifer has co-authored
five books.
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