Bunty Avieson worked for twenty years as a journalist on newspapers and magazines in Australia and Britain. She was editor of Woman's Day and editorial director of New Idea, winning three Magazine Publishers Association Awards. She is also a Williamson Fellow. In 2000 Bunty took up fiction writing full-time. In 2002 she won two Ned Kelly Crime Writing Awards for her first novel, Apartment 255.
Fleur Dean has had an interesting and varied career as an actor. She was a founding member of an initiative for youth at risk called Big hArt, and while touring with those theatre productions discovered her interest in puppetry, dance and community development. She also co-founded theatre company the Betty Booke, and has appeared in a number of films.