Gail Bell was born in Sydney in 1950. She graduated from the University of Sydney in pharmacy and education. She has published short stories and articles, and her first full-length work, The Poison Principle, won the NSW Premier's Award for Non-Fiction in 2002.
Louise Crawford is a drama graduate from Queensland University of Technology with a major in acting. Louise has a successful career on stage, film and television in Australia. She appeared in the film The Hard Word, and on television in Natalie Wood, Farscape, Beastmaster and All Saints. She hosted Scream Test and was a series regular on Breakers and Echo Point. Her theatre appearances include The Vagina Monologues, The Importance of Being Earnest, Uncle Vanya, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Caucasian Chalk Circle. Louise has also been a scriptwriter on Home and Away and Breakers.