Jazz Money is an internationally renowned poet and artist. They are the author of the multi-award-winning poetry collections how to make a basket (2021) and mark the dawn (2024), and the illustrated children's book The Frog’s First Song (2025). Jazz’s first feature film WINHANGANHA (2023) was commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive and has toured globally. As a visual artist, Jazz works with poetics to create immersive storied spaces. A proud queer Wiradjuri person, their writing and art has been presented, performed and published around the world.

Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa) is a freelance poet, editor, cultural producer and weaver. Her central praxis focusses on artistic collaboration and platforming the sovereignty and amplification of Indigenous and POC artists. Anne-Marie has produced and curated festivals and events for over 20 years including the Queensland Poetry Festival which she co-directed from 2015-2017. She has guest edited multiple poetry collections and journals including the Woven anthology, Whisper Songs by Tony Birch, Solid Air: Australia & NZ Spoken Word and most recently the Cordite Journal: 116 Remember alongside Palestinian scholar and writer Micaela Sahaar. Mettle is her debut poetry collection published with University of Queensland Press.

Luke Patterson is a Gamilaroi poet, educator and musician living on Gadigal lands. His poetry has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Plumwood Mountain, Rabbit, Running Dog and The Suburban Review, and in the anthologies Active Aesthetics, Firefront: First Nations Poetry and Power Today and Best of Australian Poems 2025. His research and creative practice are grounded in extensive work with First Nations and other community-based organisations across Australia. His debut poetry collection, A Savage Turn, is out now with Magabala Books