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Kristin Williamson (a.k.a. Kristin Ingrid Williamson; Kristin Lofven Williamson) b. 1940 (25 works by fr. 1979) Kristin Williamson is of mixed Anglo-Irish and Scandinavian descent; her father was a Swede. Williamson was awarded a BA (Hons) in History and worked as an actor, taught Drama in high schools and lectured in Drama and English at Melbourne State College in Victoria. She moved to Sydney in 1979, and in the 1980s wrote features for the National Times and was a columnist for the Times on Sunday. Williamson moved to Noosa Heads in Queensland in the 1990s. As well as works of fiction and biography, Williamson wrote The Last Bastion (1984) on Australia's engagement in World War II, and a biographical study, Brothers to Us: The Story of a Remarkable Family's Fight against Apartheid (1997). With her husband David Williamson (q.v.) she co-wrote the screenplay for the film Princess Kate.
Stig R. Hokanson b. 1944 (10 works by fr. 1991)

Stig Hokanson arrived in Australia in 1966 and soon afterwards found employment in the advertising department of Sydney television station, Channel 10. The following year he moved to Brisbane and secured a position with the Courier Mail. When Queensland Newspapers was acquired by Rupert Murdoch in 1982 Hokanson left the industry to pursue an academic career. He was awarded a B.A. (Hons) from Griffith University and later taught there as well as at The Queensland University of Technology. His 1987 dissertation, 'Arrival, Acceptance and Abolition - Indentured Labour in the Queensland Sugar Industry 1863-1913' examines an important period of labour relations in Colonial Queensland and its immediate aftermath.

In 1988 Hokanson completed post-graduate degree studies in Education at The University of Queensland and went on to teach English and History at several Brisbane high schools before switching to primary teaching and eventually Special Education. He retired in 2005.

A Freemason since 1971, Hokanson has written short biographical articles about prominent former members of his Brisbane Lodge for its newsletter Thespian TImes. Between 1994 and 1999 he edited Queensländeren for Brisbane's Swedes Down Under Club (1989-), and in the mid-1990s collaborated with Eileen B. Johnson, John Stanley Martin on One Way Passage: Swedish Migrants to Australia in the James Sanderson Archive (1996).

A regular editorial contributor and feature writer for Thespian Times, the Queensland Freemason and assorted historical journals and periodicals, Hokanson began contributing biographies to the Australian Variety Theatre Archive in 2013 and soon afterwards established his own website.

Hokanson is also a registered civil marriage and funeral celebrant, and a long time member of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland.
Niilo Oja b. 1904 d. 1990 (1 works by fr. 1972) Niilo Oja wrote short stories in Finlandia News and Suomi. He also wrote an unpublished work, Laajan maan karikot ja kauneus (Reefs and Beauty of the Vast Country).
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