Associate Professor Tracy O’Shaughnessy is a trade book publisher and academic. Throughout her diverse 25-year publishing career, she has worked across most trade non-fiction genres and specialised in illustrated books. She has worked at a number of Australia’s leading publishing houses for both small and large companies. In her early career, she worked for Time-Life Australia, McCulloch Publishing, Lothian Books and Reed Books. She was part of the team that established Hardie Grant Books in 1997 and went on to be the Miegunyah publisher at Melbourne University Press before taking on the role as the Fairfax Publisher at Allen & Unwin. She was invited to join RMIT University to be the Program Director of the Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing in 2015. She is the architect and founder of RMIT’s Master of Writing and Publishing, which began in 2016 with its innovative student-led Bowen Street Press. In addition to her advocacy and mentoring role within both the university and publishing industry, she continues to work as a publishing consultant.

Dr Zoe Dzunko is Lecturer in the Master of Writing and Publishing program. With extensive expertise in both print and digital publication design and management, she possesses ten years of experience encompassing literary magazines, arts and culture anthologies, academic and peer-reviewed journals, and corporate publications. She has held editorial and marketing positions with The Lifted Brow and Kill Your Darlings, and in 2014 co-founded Powder Keg magazine, an online poetry quarterly based out of Melbourne and New York. Her work has appeared in numerous Australian and international publications including The Age, Australian Book Review, Southerly, Guernica, Tin House, The Fanzine, Prelude et al. and received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House Writer’s Workshop, and Yale Writers’ Conference.

Dr Sarah Gory is a writer, editor and scholar. She has been working in the publishing industry for over a decade, with extensive experience producing both print and digital projects. As an editor, she primarily works on illustrated publishing, art books, magazines and non-fiction anthologies, and in 2020 she co-founded local imprint Common Room with Paul Mylecharane. Her critical and creative writing has been widely published in journals and magazines across Australia, including in Meanjin, Cordite, un Magazine and Australian Book Review, and as book chapters both in Australia and overseas. She is interested in formal experimentation, in multiform collaboration, and in questions of ‘value’. In 2022 she was awarded runner-up in the Calibre Essay Prize. Sarah has been a part of the Master of Writing and Publishing teaching team since 2022. 

Eugenie Baulch is an editor and project manager with over 15 years' experience. She has worked extensively in-house and as a freelance editor. Eugenie's in-house roles include senior editor at Melbourne University Publishing and project editor for the publications arm of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Eugenie has led teams of editors, proofreaders and designers, and worked with many high-profile authors across a wide range of subject areas. With particular expertise in the production of illustrated non-fiction titles, she has overseen hundreds of publication projects from manuscripts to finished copies.

Dr Angela Meyer has worked in the book industry for almost two decades, including as a bookseller, book journalist, Books+Publishing editor, commissioning editor and publisher, freelance book editor, and author. Her debut novel, A Superior Spectre, was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award, the MUD Literary Prize, an Australian Book Industry Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Writing and a Saltire Literary Society Award (Scotland). She is also the author of a novella, Joan Smokes, which won the inaugural Mslexia Novella Award (UK), and a book of flash fiction, Captives. Her second novel, Moon Sugar, was released in October 2022. Her work has been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers, including Meanjin, Island, The Big Issue, Best Australian Stories and Kill Your Darlings. She has a Doctor of Creative Arts from the Writing and Society Research Group at Western Sydney University. In 2021 she completed Climate Reality Leadership training and is now on a bit of a mission to help her industry become greener.