Has the Author Died, Again?

Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker is a Nyungar technologist, writer, digital rights activist living on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar. They write speculative fiction, and work with creative coding and digital poetry to interrogate themes of computational histories and our relationship with machines. Their work frequently paints stories of Indigenous characters in near-future realities, and asks - what would technology look like if built from Indigenous protocols of Caring for Country and Caring for Kin? 

Richard King is an author, critic and poet whose work has appeared in The Australian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Independent, The Monthly, Griffith Review, The Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, Overland, New Matilda, Australian Book Review, The Best Australian Poems, The Best Australian Science Writing and 3 Quarks Daily, for whom he wrote a regular column between 2016 and 2018). He writes regularly for Arena. His first book, On Offence: The Politics of Indignation, was published in Australia, the United Kingdom and Australia. 

Kate Mildenhall is a writer and teacher. Her debut novel, Skylarking, was named in Readings Top Ten Fiction Books of 2016 and her bestselling The Mother Fault was longlisted for the 2021 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2020 Aurealis Awards. Mildenhall lives in Hurstbridge on Wurundjeri lands, with her partner and two children. Her third novel is The Hummingbird Effect.

Tracey Spicer is a multiple Walkley Award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster. She is the inaugural national convener of Women in Media, was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year in 2019, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize, won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia and was named one of the Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence in 2018. Spicer has also been awarded the Order of Australia. 

Ariel Bogle is an investigations reporter at Guardian Australia with a focus on technology, extremism and online culture. Previously, Bogle was a technology reporter at the ABC where she contributed to programs across the network. Her reporting has been published in The New York Times, the Guardian, The Atlantic, Australian Financial Review and Slate, among other outlets.