The Jaguar

Sarah Holland-Batt is a Prime Minister’s Literary Award-winning writer, editor and critic, and a Professor of Creative Writing at QUT. She is the author of three books of poems, Aria (2008), The Hazards (2016) and The Jaguar (2022) which won the Stella Prize in 2023, and a book of essays, Fishing for Lightning (2021), collecting her columns on contemporary poetry for The Australian. She is presently the 2022 Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre.

Geraldine Hakewill is an Australian actress, singer and songwriter. She is known for her role as Chelsea Babbage in the Australian TV series Wanted and the titular character in Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries, which ran for two seasons from 2019 to 2021. A highly sought-after narrator, Geraldine has narrated a number of high-profile audiobooks including Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, Suzie Miller's Prima Facie and The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt.