Colin Thiele (1920–2006) was born in Eudunda, South Australia, in 1920. Colin Thiele has published almost 80 books in various fields including poetry, prose, fiction, drama, history, criticism and biography. Some of his numerous titles are The Fire in the Stone, Storm Boy, Magpie Island, Poems in My Luggage and The Hammerhead Light. His work has won many awards and citations of merit and has been translated and published extensively overseas.
Anna Steen is a Theatre graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Anna has worked with various theatre companies across Australia, working nationally and internationally. Anna works as a regular voice over artist and has performed in a number of radio dramas and poeticas for Radio National. She has both produced and narrated over 20 novels and anthologies for Audio Books.