Rosamund Else-Mitchell was born in 1970 and has worked in a variety of jobs including theatre production, arts administrator, English teacher, bookseller, waitressing and script editor in Oxford, London, Edinburgh, New York and Sydney. She completed an Honours degree in English literature and language at Oxford University.

Naomi Flutter was born in 1970 and has an Honours degree in Law and Economics and a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1996 she received the Sir Edward Dunlop Memorial Award. She is the co-author of Law As Culture and a co-editor of a fundrasing anthology of refugee writings, Tilting Cages. She has worked in the USA, Bhutan and Australia.