A time of beauty and loss

Delia Falconer is Senior lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at the of Technology, Sydney. She is the author of two novels and a work of creative non-fiction. Her first novel, the bestselling The Service of Clouds, was shortlisted for major literary awards. Her second, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, was shortlisted among other awards for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Her most recent book, Sydney, a personal history of her hometown, was shortlisted for seven national awards in history, biography and non-fiction, and won the 2011 'Nib' CAL/Waverley Library Award for outstanding research. Her short stories and essays have been widely awarded and anthologised. 

Danielle Celermajer is a philosopher, and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, who lives in a multispecies justice community in rural New South Wales. Her professional life has been characterised by moving between organisations whose principal focus is human rights policy, advocacy and scholarship, and seeking a greater integration between these dimensions of human rights work. She is the author of Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future.