K A Nelson was born and raised in Mudgee NSW. She left school at 15 and went to ‘tech’ to learn shorthand and typing. A decade or so and a few adventures later, she returned to study with the help of Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, first at Sydney Teachers College, then at the University of New England. With a Diploma of Teaching (Technical) and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English literature and Drama, she returned to the desert.

Moya Pacey was born and grew up in Middlesbrough in the north of England. She came to Canberra in 1978 when it was a country town masquerading as a city and taught English until she retired. Her poems have won prizes, been read on radio, appeared on buses, gallery walls and published in print and on-line in Australia and overseas.

Doggerland is Moya’s third collection. Her previous two poetry collections: Black Tulips (Recent Work Press 2017) and The Wardrobe (Ginninderra Press 2010) were shortlisted for the ACT Writers Centre Poetry Award. One Last Border: Refugee Poems published in 2015 by Ginninderra Press was co-written with Sandra Renew and Hazel Hall.