The Household Guide to Dying

Debra Adelaide is a Sydney-based author. She attended the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts (Honours) in English Literature, followed by a Doctorate of Philosophy in Australian Women's Literature. Her novel The Household Guide to Dying has been a worldwide success. She is also the editor of four themed collections of fiction and memoirs. Debra has worked as a researcher, editor and book reviewer, and is now a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Heather Bolton is a Melbourne-based actor who has extensive stage and screen experience. After winning a GOFTA for her role as Meg in Gaylene Preston’s 1985 debut feature Mr Wrong, she went on to feature in television series Blue Heelers, Stingers, Rush and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and films Illustrious Energy, Rainbow’s End and The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. Heather also writes and performs in plays for Melbourne’s Ranters Theatre.