AustLit

'Anne Abednego Gela was born on Thursday Island. Her mother is from St Pauls Village on Moa Island, her father is from Lina Village on Erub (Darnley) Island. Anne’s augadh or totem/kindred spirit is Thingri (Stingray). Working at the Dreamtime Cultural Centre in Rockhampton was a turning point for Anne. It was there that she began to express her culture freely and, soon after, began an Associate Diploma course at Cairns TAFE College for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.' (Source : Magabala Books website)

Goby Noah was an Elder from Erub Island, Torres Strait.

Based in Mparntwe / Alice Springs, Jonathan Daw specialises in directing stop-motion animation. He has worked widely with remote Indigenous media organisations and Indigenous art centres, including Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Pilbara and Kimberly Aboriginal Media (PAKAM) (Broome WA), Erub Arts (Erub Island Torres Strait), ICTV (Mpantwe / Alice Springs), Tangentyere Artists (Mparntwe / Alice Springs) and Mulka Project (Yirrkala, NT). Between 2011 and 2017, he worked for Pintubi Anmatjere Warlpiri (PAW) Media in the central Australian Aboriginal community of Yuendumu.

Source: Director's website.

'Chella Goldwin is an Erubian woman and traditional owner from Erub Island and the Meriam Mer language group in the Eastern Torres Strait Islands. She has been working in the Department of the Environment and Energy for almost a decade taking a couple of years off to work and live in the remote communities of Yirrkala, East Arnhem in the Northern Territory and Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. Chella has spent her working career to advance outcomes for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders and has a passion for working and living in remote communities. She has rich life experiences to draw from when writing. She is a writer, a poet and a tamed activist. Chella loves spending time with her two dogs, family and catching up with friends.' (Source : Us Mob 27)

Jillian Boyd Bowie is a Torres Strait Islander woman from the Samsep and Zagareb tribes of Erub and Mer. She is an author, poet and songwriter, born and raised on Thursday Island. After her engagement to Richard (Uncle Richy) Bowie, she relocated with her six children to Darwin, Northern Territory, where she works as a mentor for an Indigenous employment program.

In 2012, Jillian won the black+write Indigenous Writing Fellowship, along with Tori-Jay Mordey, for Bakir and Bi. In 2018, her poetry was highly commended in the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize.

'Dr Eve Christine Peacock practiced performance arts (acting, directing producing fringe theatre) before training as a television producer with ABC Television in Sydney in 1983. She is a writer, producer, director with Brisbane based Indigenous community media arts organisation Uniikup Productions Ltd. (originally Murriimage Community Video and Film Service) established in 1986. Christine is also Artistic Director of the annual Colourise Festival (details at www.colourise.com.au). She completed an MA (Research) at the Creative Industries Faculty, Q.U.T. Brisbane in September 2009, and in 2014 completed a PhD by practice led research of her processes and practice in the Brisbane Indigenous community. She is a descendent of Erub in the Torres Strait Islands, born in Mareeba North Queensland (bordering on Kuka Yalanji and Djabuganjdi countries) and grew up in Ningy Ningy country at Redcliffe SE Queensland. She currently lives at Wolvi on Gubbi Gubbi, the paternal country of her children. Christine is a parent of two and grandmother'.

(Source : Colourise)

'Jillian Boyd budding author, poet and songwriter. Jillian is a Torres Strait Islander who is passionate about her people, culture and shaping our future leaders, our children and youth. Jillian was born and raised on Thursday Island in the Torres Straits. Her mother, Edith (nee Sailor) was born on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Eastern Island group and her father David was born and raised in Queenstown, New Zealand.

At 15, Jillian discovered her passion and talent for creative writing, however her focus changed when she became a young mother at 20, and her dreams were put on hold. The single mother of six children moved to Brisbane in 2000 to embrace opportunities for their future. Over the years she had written the odd poem or two, left unfinished stories and manuscripts lying around the house, posted up inspirational quotes in her home and written songs for the Church she attended regularly. At the age of 41 she decided to start writing professionally.' (State Library of Queensland website www.slq.qld.gov.au)