BRONWYN LOVELL
Bronwyn Lovell is a poet, novelist, and scholar of science fiction and space history. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies including Best Australian Poems, Australian Love Poems, and Borderless: A transnational anthology of feminist poetry, and journals including Meanjin, Southerly, Antipodes, and Strange Horizons. She has won the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award and been shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Fair Australia Prize, Speculate Prize, Newcastle Poetry Prize, Bridport Prize, and Montreal International Poetry Prize.

DOMINIC SYMES
Dominic Symes lives and writes in Naarm (Melbourne). His poetry has appeared in Overland, Cordite, Rabbit, Australian Book Review, and Australian Poetry Journal. He curates NO WAVE, a monthly poetry reading series, on Kaurna Country (Adelaide) where he grew up. Most recently he was selected for Cordite/AP's 'Tell me like you mean it 4’ anthology and the 'Best of Australian Poems 2021' anthology. ‘I saw the best memes of my generation’ is his first collection of poetry.

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