Johanna Emeney teaches creative writing at Massey University, where she gained her PhD. She has published three books of poetry: Apple & Tree (2011), Family History (2017), and Felt (2021), and an academic book, The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities (2018). Johanna lives on a lifestyle block in North Auckland with her husband and a menagerie of animals.

Sarah Laing is a writer, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her books are Coming up Roses (2007), Dead People’s Music (2009), The Fall of Light (2013), Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir (2016) and Let Me Be Frank (2019), and she co-edited Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa NZ Women’s Comics. In 2010, she was the Sargeson Fellow and in 2013 the University of Auckland/Michael King Writers Centre Fellow. She lives in Wellington with her children.