Tributes & Collections

Angela Savage is an award-winning writer and CEO of Public Libraries Victoria. Her debut novel, Behind the Night Bazaar, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Unpublished Manuscript, and all three of her Jayne Keeney PI novels were shortlisted for Ned Kelly Awards. Angela’s short stories have been published in Australia and the UK and she won the 2011 Scarlet Stiletto Award for short crime fiction. Angela holds a PhD in Creative Writing. Her latest novel is Mother of Pearl. She recently co-edited and contributed to Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist, an anthology inspired by Kylie Minogue songs.

Jasmin McGaughey is a Torres Strait Islander and African American writer and editor. She is the author of the Little Ash series presented by Ash Barty and illustrated by Jade Goodwin. Jasmin started her publishing journey as a black&write! editor intern while she studied a Master of Writing, Editing and Publishing followed by a Masters of Research, investigating fantasy literature written by people of colour. In 2023, she won a Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. She has written for Overland, Kill Your Darlings, SBS Voices and Griffith Review and recently co-edited Words to Sing the World Alive. Her debut YA, Moonlight and Dust, was published in July 2025 by Allen & Unwin. Jasmin’s always loved storytelling, and she is proud to be able to work and learn in this field.

Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman from Rockhampton, Central Queensland. She is a prolific Aboriginal affairs journalist, academic, writer and commentator who has been published in Guardian Australia, the National Indigenous Times, The Saturday Paper, BuzzFeed News Australia, New Matilda, Vogue Australia, Marie Claire, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. She currently co-hosts Curtain The Podcast, which was named one of the top 25 true crime podcasts by New York’s Vulture magazine. In 2019 she won a Clarion Award and was nominated for a Walkley Award for her essay on the wrongful conviction of Aboriginal man Kevin Henry, and in 2023 she won Meanjin’s Hilary McPhee Award for brave essay writing for her piece on the disappearing of Aboriginal women. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Carumba Institute. Her book is Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media (UQP).

Stephanie Dogfoot is a spoken word poet, comedian and cabaret performer from Singapore. They were the 2012 UK Farrago Slam champion and the 2010 Singapore Poetry Slam champion. Their first collection, Roadkill for Beginners (Math Paper Press, 2019), explores found family in strange places and strange family in found places. They are the producer of Singapore’s longest-running poetry open mic, Spoke and Bird. They have been invited to perform their work in 13 countries, including the Glastonbury Festival, the Ubud Writers and Readers’ Festival and tours of Australia, North America and Germany. They are inspired by mud, large mammals, joy and resistance.

Terri-ann White has worked in publishing since 2005 at UWA Publishing and since 2021 at Upswell Publishing.