As the Earth Turns Silver

Alison Wong’s poetry and fiction has been widely published in journals and her first collection of poetry, Cup, was published in 2006. She has lived in New Zealand and China. She has been awarded a number of key fellowships for her work, including the 2002 Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. Her first novel As the Earth Turns Silver was published in 2009, and was the winner of the Fiction category at the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards.

Heather Bolton is a Melbourne-based actor who has extensive stage and screen experience. After winning a GOFTA for her role as Meg in Gaylene Preston’s 1985 debut feature Mr Wrong, she went on to feature in television series Blue Heelers, Stingers, Rush and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and films Illustrious Energy, Rainbow’s End and The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. Heather also writes and performs in plays for Melbourne’s Ranters Theatre.