Aaron Mannion is associate publisher at Vignette Press. He has edited and co-edited a range of publications, including the post graduate magazine Plane Tree, the creative writing anthologies Muse and Nth Degree, the reviews section of the peer-reviewed journal Traffic and Vignette Press's Geek Mook. He is currently fiction editor at Antic. Aaron read English Literature at the University of Cambridge and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne. He is deputy chair of the Small Press Network and co-convener of the Independent Publishing Conference's academic day. His work has been published in Wet Ink, The Sleepers Almanac, Island and elsewhere. He's been shortlisted for the 2011 Wet Ink Short Story Prize and for the Penguin Manuscript Award in 2009 and 2011.

Millicent Weber is a researcher in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, where she is part of the Publishing and Communication program and the Research Unit in Public Cultures. She completed her PhD, a sociology of literary festivals, at Monash University in 2016. Her book, Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.