Alie Benge (she/her) is a New Zealand writer who lives in London. She was the essay editor for takahē and has been published in The Spinoff, Turbine/Kapohau, Pantograph Punch and more. She was joint winner of the 2017 Landfall Essay Competition. Her debut essay collection, Ithaca, was published in 2023.

Kathryn van Beek (she/her) is the author of two children’s books and the short story collection Pet (2020), which is also available as a podcast. Her work has appeared in Overland, Landfall, takahē, Newsroom, The Spinoff, Sunday Star-Times and MiNDFOOD. She contributed to Misconceptions, a web series about miscarriage available on the New Zealand Herald website. Kathryn was the 2023 Robert Burns Fellow.

Lil O’Brien (she/her) is the author of Not That I’d Kiss a Girl (2020), a beloved Kiwi memoir about coming out during her years at Otago University, among other things. Lil is currently working on the screenplay of Not That I’d Kiss a Girl with South Pacific Pictures. She’s an award-winning freelance copywriter by day, and has had essays published in takahē, The Spinoff and more.