Secondary School Days

Elizabeth Acevedo is the United States’ Young People’s Poet Laureate and The New York Times–bestselling author of The Poet X, winner of the National Book Award and the Carnegie medal. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion and also the author of bestselling YA titles With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land. She is currently based in Washington, DC.

Graham Akhurst is a Kokomini writer who grew up in Meanjin. He is a Lecturer of Australian Indigenous Studies and Creative Writing at University of Technology Sydney. As a Fulbright Scholar, Graham took his love for writing to New York City, where he studied for an Masters of Fine Arts in Fiction at Hunter College. He is a board member for the First Nations Artists and Writers Network and Varuna. He lives with his wife on Gadigal Country in Sydney. Borderland is his first novel.

Jack Heath wrote his first book in high school and submitted it to a publisher at age 17. He’s now the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of 40 action-packed thrillers, translated into nine languages. He lives on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land with his wife, kids, chickens and fish. He writes full-time but often gets distracted by memes sent to @jackheathwriter.

C.S. Pacat is The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Dark Rise, the Captive Prince trilogy and the GLAAD-nominated graphic novels Fence. Born in Australia and educated at the University of Melbourne, C.S. Pacat has since lived in a number of cities, including Tokyo and Perugia, and currently resides and writes in Melbourne.