Graeme Harper is a Dean and Professor of Creative Writing at Oakland University, Michigan, USA. He is editor of New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, and Director of the Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference at Imperial College London, and now in its 19th year. Graeme was the inaugural chair of the Higher Education Committee at the UK's National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE). A former Commonwealth Scholar in Creative Writing, he is an award-winning fiction writer, having won such awards as the Premier's Award for New Fiction, the NBC Award for New Fiction and, most recently, the Mutter Fellowship (2013).


Jeri Kroll is Emeritus Professor of English and Creative Writing at Flinders University, South Australia, and was the inaugural Dean of Graduate Research. She also holds an Adjunct Professorship at Central Queensland University. Past President of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she holds a PhD in Literature from Columbia University. An award-winning writer for adults and young people, she has published over twenty-five titles (including two Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Awards). Her verse novel Vanishing Point was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and a stage adaptation was a winner in the 47th Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.