John Kinsella's most recent volumes of poetry are Sack and Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems His collection, Jam Tree Gully (WW Norton, 2012), won the 2013 Prime Minister's Award for Poetry.

His volume of stories In the Shade of the Shady Tree (Ohio University Press, 2012) was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award. Tide, a collection of stories, was published by Transit Lounge in 2013. Crow's Breath (Transit Lounge, 2015) was shortlisted for WA Premier's Book Awards Fiction Prize 2016.

He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, and Professor of Sustainability and Literature at Curtin University.

Thurston Moore is an American musician, poet and activist, best known as a member of American rock band Sonic Youth, with whom he recorded sixteen genre-defining albums including 1988's Daydream Nation, which was chosen by the US Library of Congress for historical preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2006.

Since the band went on indefinite hiatus in 2011 he has recorded several solo and group albums, most recently Screen Time in 2021. Moore is included in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list. He runs the record label Ecstatic Peace! and the publishing company Ecstatic Peace Library. He lives in London.