The Place on Dalhousie

Melina Marchetta is an Australian writer and former teacher. Her first novel, Looking for Alibrandi, was released in 1992 to much acclaim, sweeping the pool of young adult literary awards. Melina has also written short stories including Twelve Minutes as part of a Books Alive anthology, along with reviews and opinion pieces for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Australian Literary Review. She has been a writer-in-residence around the country, as far north as Thursday Island and as far south as Hobart. Melina now lives in Sydney and writes full-time.

Maria Angelico is an Australian actor, writer and producer whose credits include many Australian film and television productions. She played the lead role, Julia, in Network Ten’s Sisters. Recent projects include sketch comedy Orange is the New Brown, ABC's Glitch, The InBESTigators, Get Krack!n and Network Ten's Mr Black and How to Stay Married. She created, wrote and starred in her web series, Movement. On stage, Maria played the lead role of Daphna in the 2015–2016 national tour of Bad Jews (Ellis Productions).