Bruce Pascoe is a Bunurong, Yuin and Tasmanian Aboriginal writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. He is the enterprise professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. He is best known for his work Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture (Magabala Books 2014)

Bill Gammage is a historian at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. His books include The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War and three prize-winning titles - Narrandera Shire, The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939 and The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia.

Jasmin McGaughey is a Torres Strait Islander and African American writer and editor. She is the author of the Little Ash series and her debut young adult novel is Moonlight and Dust.

Savi Ross is an African American, Torres Strait Islander illustrator based in Narrm Melbourne. Savi's illustrations often feature playful colour, friendship, and, most importantly, people of colour loving themselves and each other. Savi's illustrations are expressed through prints, zines and more, where they think about community and the joys of place and family. None of their work would be possible without real mountains, real love, and the many Black creatives who occupy space and beyond digital art.