Gerard Lee is an Australian author, screenwriter and director. Born in Melbourne on 23 November 1951 and raised in Brisbane, Lee began writing for The Telegraph newspaper at 16 years of age. Lee studied at the University of Queensland and the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). He met Jane Campion at AFTRS and they formed a long standing creative partnership. Lee co-wrote Campion’s feature film debut, Sweetie, which won Best Screenplay at the Australian Film Institute Awards and a Camera d’Or at Cannes.

Lee’s feature film, All Men Are Liars, opened the Sydney Film Festival in 1995 and won awards at the San Remo Film Festival and the Palm Springs Film Festival. Lee produced and wrote the screenplay for the film My Mistress (2014) and was the principal screenwriter on Breath (2018) adapted from the novel of the same name by Tim Winton.

As a television writer, Lee and Campion co-wrote the successful series Top of the Lake (2013), which garnered eight Emmy nominations for its first series. The second season, Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017), was the first television project to be screened in its entirety at Cannes Film Festival.

As a prose writer, Lee has published Pieces for a glass piano, True love and how to get it, Troppo man and Eating dog: travel stories all with the University of Queensland Press between 1978 and 1993. His second novel, Troppo Man (1990), was shortlisted for the Vogel’s Award for Young Writers.

Australian poetry editor, reviewer and publisher born on 22 August 1948. Educated at The University of Queensland, where he earned a Master of Literary Studies in 1976 and a PhD in 1988. Co-editor of Australian Literary Studies since 1982.

Laurence (Laurie) Thomas Hergenhan was born on 15 March 1931 in Bega, New South Wales. He was educated at the University of Sydney, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, as well as the Birkbeck College, London, where he completed a PhD. Upon his return to Australia in 1960, he took up a lectureship at the University of Tasmania. Hergenhan was appointed Reader in the Department of English at the University of Queensland in 1971. He made a major contribution in the research and teaching of Australian literature. He was founding Director of the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland (1979-1982), founding editor of Australian literary studies, and has written widely on Australian literature. In 1992 he received the A.A. Phillips Award for his contribution to the study of Australian literature; in 1993 he became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; in 1994 he became an Officer of the Order of Australia; in 1995 he was made an Emeritus Professor. He retired from the University of Queensland in 1993. He died on 21 July 2019.