Walking

Kim Kelly is the author of 12 novels, including bestseller The Blue Mile and the critically acclaimed Wild Chicory. With distinctive warmth and lyrical charm, her stories explore Australia, its history, politics and people. Kelly has been short- and longlisted for various awards, including the ARA Historical Novel Prize, Viva la Novella, The Hope Prize and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. She has also won the Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Prize for both Fiction and Non-Fiction, for her novel Ladies' Rest and Writing Room and her memoir Touched respectively. A long-time book editor and sometime reviewer, Kim is a dedicated narrative addict and lover of true love. In fact, she takes love so seriously she once donated a kidney to her husband to prove it, and also to save his life. Originally from Sydney, today Kim lives in central New South Wales, on Wiradjuri country, with her husband, two cats and some chickens, and occasionally the kids when they come home to graze.

Australian actor Laurence Boxhall graduated from NIDA and went on to perform in Melbourne Theatre Company’s enormously successful 2019 production of Shakespeare in Love. He was also the Gen Z captain in Channel Nine’s popular Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation, with Shaun Micallef. He was also main-cast in the ABC’s hilarious Ronny Chieng: International Student. Other credits include a recurring role in Neighbours and the web series Dave and Theo. Laurence is a highly skilled voiceover artist, having narrated a number of audiobooks, including The Grunts series by Philip Ardagh for which Laurence was named one of the ten Best New Voices in 2020 by The Publishers Association in the UK.

Lucy Ansell is an up and coming Australian actress whose professional stage debut was in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. She is a 2018 VCA graduate and recipient of two of the college’s most prestigious awards.