David Carlin is a Melbourne-based writer and co-director of both WrICE and the nonfiction Lab Research Group at RMIT University. His writing includes the acclaimed memoir Our Father Who Wasn't There and numerous essays; he has won a Varuna Fellowship and multiple grants and awards.

Xu Xi is author of nine books of fiction and essays, including Access Thirteen Tales, the novel Habit of a Foreign Sky, and Evanescent Isles, an essay collection. She is currently writer in residence at City University of Hong Kong, where she founded and directs the first low-residency MFA in Asia.

Michelle Aung Thin's research interests include Anglo-Burmese identity, skin, authenticity, and intimacy. Her novel, The Monsoon Bride, is about hybrid identities, and she is currently working on a book about home, mobility, and belonging in colonial Burma and contemporary Myanmar. She teaches at RMIT University.

Mieke Eerkens's work has appeared in the Atlantic, Creative Nonfiction, the LA Review of Books, and anthologies such as Best Travel Writing 2011 and the Norton anthology Fakes. She teaches undergraduate writing at University of Iowa.