Born in Adelaide, Nancy Cato was a journalist and art critic on the 'Adelaide News' until the late 1950s, when she became a freelance writer. She edited the 'Jindyworobak Anthology' (1950), and was actively involved in the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Australian Society of Authors during the 1950s and 1960s. Her novels include 'All the Rivers Run', 'Green Grows the Vine', and 'Brown Sugar'. Cato published other prose works, two volumes of poetry and contributed to Australian literary magazines. For further information, see the author entry for Nancy Cato at AustLit.

Vivienne Rae-Ellis was born in Tasmania, however lived in England from 1987. She published books in many genres including children's fiction, biography and adult fiction and conducted oral history interviews for the National Library of Australia. Prior to her writing career she worked as an actress, a newspaper columnist, a scriptwriter and a public relations officer.