Robert was diagnosed with Asperger's at 28 years of age, which explains where his crazy ideas come from.
He is now 64 and a self-advocate who does public speaking, lobbying, and serves on boards and councils.
Maybe an autism conference in Australia could invite him to come and speak.
He works in retail and has his own house with two cats and lots of plants.
His hobbies include photography and collecting antique photographs.
Sarah Jane Justice is an Adelaide-based fiction writer, poet, musician and spoken word artist.
Among other achievements, she has performed in the National Finals of the Australian Poetry Slam, released two albums of her original music and seen her poetry
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Tom Wrosch is a retired policy analyst with the State of Oregon, and resides with his wife in Salem.
He has decades-long experience in community theater and radio, most recently appearing as Grandpa in You Can’t Take it With You. Besides theater, his hobbies include reading, choral
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Ed lives with his wife plus a magical assortment of native animals in tropical North Queensland.
His efforts at wallaby wrangling are without parallel — at least in this universe.
He enjoys reading and writing science-fiction stories set within intriguing, yet plausible contexts, and invite readers’ “willing suspension of
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James Walton was a librarian, a farm labourer, and mostly a public sector union official.
He is published in many anthologies, journals, and newspapers.
He has been shortlisted for the ACU National Literature Prize, the MPU International Prize, The William Wantling Prize, the James Tate Prize, and is a winner of the Raw
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Emma Louise Gill (she/her) is a British-Australian spec fic writer and consumer of vast amounts of coffee. Brought up on a diet of English lit, she rebelled and now spends her time writing explosive space opera and other fantastical things in
Merri Andrew writes poetry and short fiction, some of which has appeared in Cordite, Be:longing, Baby Teeth and Islet, among other places.
She has been a featured artist for the Noted festival, won a Red Room #30in30 daily poetry challenge and was shortlisted for the
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Laurie Bell lives in Melbourne, Australia and is the author of "The Stones of Power Series" via Wyvern's Peak Publishing: "The Butterfly Stone", "The Tiger's Eye" and "The Crow's Heart" (YA/Fantasy).
She is also the author of "White Fire" (Sci-Fi) and "The Good, the Bad and the Undecided" (a
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My time at Nambucca Valley Community Radio began back in 2016 after moving into the area from Sydney.
As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, I recognised it was definitely God who opened up the pathways for my husband and I to settle in the Valley.
Within
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Tara Campbell is an award-winning writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse, and graduate of American University's MFA in Creative Writing.
Publication credits include Masters Review, Wigleaf, Electric Literature,
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Mark is an astrophysicist and space scientist who worked on the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. Following this he worked in computer consultancy, engineering, and high energy research (with a stint at the JET Fusion Torus).
All this science hasn't damped his love of fantasy and science fiction. It has, however, ruined his
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Tim Borella is an Australian author, mainly of short speculative fiction published in anthologies, online and in podcasts.
He’s also a songwriter, and has been fortunate enough to have spent most of his working life doing something else he loves, flying.
Tim lives with his wife Georgie in beautiful Far
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Carolyn's work spans devising, performance, theatre-in-education and a collaborative visual art practice.
She tours children's works to schools nationally with School Performance Tours, is a member of the Bathurst physical theatre ensemble Lingua Franca and one half of darkroom —
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Barry Yedvobnick is a recently retired Biology Professor. He performed molecular biology and genetic research, and taught, at Emory University in Atlanta for 34 years. He is new to fiction writing, and enjoys taking real science a step or two beyond its known boundaries in his
Chuck McKenzie was born in 1970 and still spends most of his time there. His science fiction and horror short stories have been nominated for multiple genre awards, and he hopes to one day be remembered as the sort of person neighbours later describe as seeming
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Alistair Lloyd is a Melbourne based writer and narrator who has been consuming good quality science fiction and fantasy most of his life.