Margaret Merrilees was born and bred in Western Australia but now lives in Adelaide. Her idiosyncratic essays, which combine memoir, history and social commentary, have appeared in Meanjin, Island, Wet Ink and Griffith Review. Her debut novel The First Week won the Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award and was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award and a NSW Premier's Literary Award.
Chia Moan works at the interface between ideas and words, the material world and images. Her shows have ranged from Gaining Momentum at the Half Moon Gallery in London, a pioneering exploration of women's athleticism, to recent work in Eye Object, at the Balmain Watchhouse, based on tracings of her own body in yoga action. She teaches graphic facilitation and keeps track of her own life through daily cartooning. Chia lives in Sydney.
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'Merrilees says that her fables are ìthe complete instructions for being a lesbian grannyî but there's always a wider audience for tales that teach us about life … and Aesop didn't include stories about coming to terms with gender fluidity.' - Lezley Herbert, Out in Perth