Gwen Harwood is one of Australia's best-known poets. She was born in Brisbane in 1920 and lived there until her marriage in 1945, when she moved to Hobart, Tasmania. Harwood's poetry and critical writing appeared regularly in Australian literary journals from the 1960s. She published eight books of poetry. In 1989 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to literature. She wrote under the names of Francis Geyer, Walter Lehmann, Miriam Stone and T.F. Kline. She died in 1995.

Born in Geelong in 1915. Educated at Scotch College and Trinity College in the University of Melbourne. Graduated with first-class honours in English in 1936, and a MA in 1938. Ordained priest by the Archbishop of Brisbane in 1939 and served his curacy at the Anglo-Catholic parish All Saints, Wickham Terrace, near St John's Cathedral, where he met Gwen Harwood, who would become a close friend. Was warden of St Paul's College at Sydney University from 1963 to 1985. Died in Brisbane in 2002, aged 87.