Editorial Team
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Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow is the editor of Overland and the author of Communism: a love story and, most recently, Killing: Misadventures in violence.
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Jacinda Woodhead
Jacinda Woodhead is an Overland associate editor, who also runs the Overland blog. She blogs about politics and literature here, and reading, writing and technology at Meanland.
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Rjurik Davidson
Rjurik Davidson is an associate editor of Overland magazine and the author of The Library of Forgotten Books.
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Jane Gleeson-White
Jane Gleeson-White is Overland‘s new fiction editor and the author of Classics (2005) and Australian Classics (2007). Her new book, Double Entry: How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world – and how their invention could make or break the planet, will be published in October 2011. She also reviews books at bookishgirl.
ACT
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Dan Bigna
Dan Bigna is a music writer for the Canberra Times and also happens to have a particular interest in political history and alternative perspectives.
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Irma Gold
Irma Gold is an award-winning writer and editor. Her short fiction has been widely published in Australian journals and her debut collection of short fiction, Two Steps Forward, was released in September 2011 (Affirm Press). She is also the author of two children’s books and is currently working on her first novel. You can follow her on Facebook.
NSW
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Michael Brull
Michael lives in Sydney, is doing a JD at UNSW, and has a combined degree in politics and philosophy. He has written for Indigenous Law Bulletin, newmatilda, Overland, Mutiny, National Times, ABC Drum, and blogged for Independent Australian Jewish Voices. He has been called a ‘hate preacher’ by Andrew Bolt, and an anti-Semite in parliament by Labour MP Michael Danby.
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Sharon Callaghan
Sharon Callaghan lives in Wollongong and has written for different publications on a range of topics including the rights of asylum seekers, democracy, nonviolence, racism, not-for-profit community sector, public space, community unionism, human rights and feminism.
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Georgia Claire
Georgia Claire is a left-wing vegetarian greenie gay pro-rights blogging environmental scientist with opinions, and a real weakness for puppies. She currently works in the environmental industry, is completing a Masters of Environmental Management, and bakes when bored.
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Elizabeth Humphrys
Elizabeth Humphrys is a Sydney-based writer and PhD student in political economy. She is the co-editor (with Tad Tietze & Guy Rundle) of the new e-Book On Utøya: Anders Breivik, right terror, racism and Europe. She co-runs the blog Left Flank and is an editor of Interface: a journal for and about social movements. She tweets as @liz_beths.
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Boris Kelly
Boris Kelly is a Sydney-based writer with an interest in theatre, literary fiction and politics. In 2009, he was the recipient of a Varuna Fellowship for work on his first novel.
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Joshua Mostafa
Joshua Mostafa is an Anglo-Bengali expat, who, with his wife Susanne, lives in the Blue Mountains with their various children and other animals, where he works for a digital publishing company, and writes stories, essays and poems. He is a nondenominational libertarian socialist.
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Mark William Jackson
Mark William Jackson is a Sydney based writer whose work has appeared in various print and online journals. markwilliamjackson.com
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Tad Tietze
Tad Tietze is a public hospital psychiatrist who works in Sydney. He co-runs the blog Left Flank, and he tweets as @Dr_Tad.
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Stephen Wright
Stephen Wright lives on a commune outside Nimbin and writes, reads a lot of books and tries to keep the lantana under control. He won the 2009 Eureka St Essay prize. It was undoubtedly a fluke.
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Claire Zorn
Claire Zorn is a Sydney-based writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her work has been published in various literary journals and she has a particular passion for writing young adult fiction.
NT
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Scott Foyster
Scott Foyster lives in Mpartnwe/Alice Springs where he writes and collects stories to share. He is one of the editors of Wai, an independent quarterly national newspaper on social jusice and environmental issues around the country/region, and is also one half of Black Kite Press, an independent press that is currently working on it’s first publication.
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Rohan Wightman
Rohan Wightman is a Darwin-based writer & teacher. He’s been shortlisted for the NT literary awards four times, including this year. He started writing when he was young but really hit his stride when writing for Squat It, the magazine of the Squatters Union of Victoria, in the late 80s. He has piles of manuscripts but no publisher.
QLD
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Matthew Sini
Matthew Sini is a Brisbane-based writer, blogger, reviewer and academic. He is currently undertaking a PhD on cinema and sexuality at the University of Queensland.
VIC
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Trish Bolton
Trish Bolton is a creative writing student. She has had a short story published in Visible Ink and is working on a novel inspired by her cross to the dark side when she worked as a political media adviser. Her writing – opinion pieces and articles – have appeared in a number of newspapers.
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Isy Burns
Isy has been working in industrial relations for four years. She sometimes thinks she may be the only one with any common sense.
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Maxine Clarke
Maxine Beneba Clarke is a West Indian-Australian poet (Original Skin Picaro Press, 2008; Gil Scott Heron is on Parole Picaro Press, 2009), writer and journalist. She is a poetry slam champion whose non-fiction, poetry and fiction have been widely published in the Age, Crikey, the Koori Mail, Going Down Swinging, and Overland.
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Stephanie Convery
Stephanie Honor Convery is a twenty-something writer with two-thirds of a novel and half a PhD. She is currently living in a Land Cruiser.
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Koraly Dimitriadis
Koraly Dimitriadis is an Australian born Greek-Cypriot writer of poetry and fiction. Her work has been published online, in print, and has been broadcast on the radio. She is a monthly presenter on 3CR’s Spoken Word program. Koraly’s first novel, Misplaced, was longlisted for the 2010 Hachette manuscript program.
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SJ Finn
SJ Finn’s short fiction appears in Sleepers Almanac, Going Down Swinging and as a mini shot for Vignette Press. Her novel This Too Shall Pass is being published by Sleepers in March 2011.
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Tara Mokhtari
Tara Mokhtari is a poet, reviewer, editor and lecturer of creative writing. Her work is published in issues of HEAT, FourW, Verity La, Cordite and online at taramokhtari.wordpress.com
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Louise Pine
This is Louise’s first go at blogging. She hopes to get better as she goes. She also writes young adult fiction and short stories.
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Clare Strahan
Clare Strahan is what is endearingly known as an emerging writer: two years full-time at RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing and twenty-five years of writing in the privacy of her own home. She has published a few poems and a couple of short stories and is a freelance editor and fledgling in the twittersphere.
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Lina Vale
Lina Vale is a professional writing and editing student at RMIT. She writes non-fiction, poetry and short stories.