Georgina Arnott has been Assistant Editor at Australian Book Review since 2022. She is the author of The Unknown Judith Wright (UWAP, 2016), shortlisted for the National Biography Award, Judith Wright: Selected Writings (La Trobe University Press, 2022), and numerous book chapters, essays, and articles in the field of Australian literary studies, history and biography. Georgina is a former judge of the National Biography Award (2018, 2019), an ABC Top 5 Humanities Scholar (2021), and a Rockefeller Archive Center fellow (2024).
Theodore Ell is an honorary lecturer in literature at ANU. He won the 2021 Calibre Essay Prize for ‘Façades of Lebanon’, an essay about surviving the Beirut port explosion of 2020, and his memoir of revolution and crisis in Beirut, Lebanon Days, was published in July 2024. His poetry collection Beginning in Sight shared the Anne Elder Award in 2022. Theodore's essays and poetry have been published in Australia, the UK, Italy and Lebanon. He lives in Canberra.
Geordie Williamson has worked as a critic for a quarter of a century. He won the Pascall prize for arts criticism, edited Best Australian Essays, published a book, The Burning Library, on neglected figures from Ozlit, edited Tasmania's Island magazine, and has been Chief literary critic of The Australian since 2008. Latterly he has worked as a publisher at Pan Macmillan, where he mainly concentrates on the Picador imprint. He has two books of his own forthcoming: a monograph on Alexis Wright for Black Inc.'s Writers on Writers series, and a work of non-fiction about his Scottish family's long association with Easter Island.