Blaise van Hecke is a writer, photographer and artist, currently studying Professional Writing and Editing at Greensborough NMIT. Blaise has had several short stories published over the last two years in Infusion, has been published in the anthology of short stories called Mud Puddles (May 08), and came second in the bi-annual short story with the Society of Women Writers of Victoria 2007, with her story The Eleventh Summer.

Blaise has been in the Photographic Industry for 21 years, specialising in Portraiture and design for domestic as well as theatrical mediums. Her photographs have been used for book covers, CD covers and promotional literature. Blaise has extensive experience working with children in portraiture. She also has sound knowledge of Computer graphic software, having produced technical illustrations for the Automotive Industry for the last 9 years.

Blaise enjoys writing and travel and hopes to produce a book that combines both.

Kev Howlett is an illustrator and photographer. He has spent 23 years in the commercial photographic industry taking photographs of everything from babies to electrical wires; Jati Furniture to Holden cars. Currently, Kev works on technical computer illustrations and freelance photography but his passion is creative illustration with his own style of cartoon-like images.

Kev also spends a lot of time taking photographs on his travels and plans to create a picture book for each city of the world.

Kev has had many of his photographs published in magazines and brochures and some of his cartoons in the 2008 calendar for the Snowden Mining Group.

Robert Deskoski recently earned a Certificate in Professional Writing and Editing at NMIT, Greensborough. Midway through 2007 he had a short story published in a competition run by the Northcote Leader, the first run by this particular publication, and printed in the resulting anthology, Around The Block. He helped collate, edit and design Hunting Tank Software's Combat Mission Campaigns instruction manual and history guide. He has also worked on proofing A.T. Davidson's short story collection Killing Time for NMIT's publishing arm, Flat Chat Press.

Robert has completed a degree in Computer Systems Engineering (with Honours) through La Trobe University, Bundoora. He worked on a year long major project, creating a website for a major company, resulting in ShopFront, a medium-sized business website designed and implemented by Robert and a small team of other students. He has most recently worked on website development for The Learning Team, a creative team project run by Barry Carozzi and Karin Steinkrug.

Les Zigomanis is a graduate of Greensborough NMIT's Professional Writing and Editing course. At the beginning of 2008, he was awarded the Fuji Xerox Australia Student Study Grant for educational achievement and excellence. Throughout that year, he worked as an editor at NMIT's publishing arm, Flat Chat Press, where he edited a variety of projects, and also helped redevelop the Flat Chat Press Style Guide. In 2009, he was the winner of NMIT Outstanding Student of the Year, as well as the winner of the SpArtA Innovation and Business Skills Australia Outstanding Vocational Student of the Year in Arts and Culture.

Currently, Les works for Busybird, Flat Chat Press, and Sid Harta Publishers, as an editor; is an editor for the new Melbourne Writers' Magazine, [untitled], whose inaugural issue will be released in August; and is on the editing council of Page Seventeen for their seventh issue.

He is also a writer, and has worked in various fields. He has had two screenplays optioned; and, in 2008, had two feature articles published in Leader Newspapers. He has also had short stories published in various journals, and has copywritten for brochures and websites.