Dee White is the award-winning, international author of more than 25 books for children and young adults. She will do almost anything for a good story, including jumping out of a plane, touring the Paris sewers and sneaking up on an elephant.

Dee runs writing classes and workshops at schools and festivals throughout Australia and overseas, and is passionate about history, the environment and supporting young writers to tell their stories. 

Pamela Rushby is the author of over 200 books for children and young adults, as well as children's TV scripts, documentaries, short stories and freelance journalism. Pam has been an advertising copywriter, pre-school teacher, and producer of educational television, audio and multimedia.

She has won several awards, including the NSW Premier's Ethel Turner Prize, five CBCA Notable Books – and a bag of gold coins at a film festival in Iran! Pam believes the strangest, most riveting, heart-breaking, laugh-out-loud stories aren't fiction. They're real. They come from history. And she loves tripping over unusual incidents from history – and then writing about them.