AustLit

When he was a child, Rod Moran's family moved between the east and west coasts of Australia depending on the postings of their soldier father. Moran studied at the University of Western Australia and then the University of Melbourne before returning to WA in 1986. His numerous occupations include teacher, lecturer, labourer, union official, freelance journalist and writer. His most recent position is that of literary editor of the West Australian. Moran is also the author of two books of Western Australian history: Massacre Myth : An Investigation into Allegations Concerning the Mass Murder of Aborigines at Forrest River, 1926 (1999) and Sex, Maiming and Murder: Seven Case Studies into the Reliability of Reverend E.R.B. Gribble, Superintendent, Forrest River Mission 1913-1928, as a Witness to the Truth (2002).

Rod Usher has lived for extended periods in Britain and Spain. As a journalist he has been literary editor of the Age, chief sub-editor of the London Sunday Times and deputy-editor of the South Pacific edition of Time. He has also written the text for a couple of titles about photojournalism. His sister is Tor Roxburgh

Rod Stickley has lived in Rockhampton, Qld. and has served as Treasurer, Vice-President and President of the Rockhampton Writers' Club.

Rod Jones was born and educated in Melbourne, studying history and English at the University of Melbourne. After graduating in 1976, he worked as a teacher in schools and universities. Since the late 1980s he has worked as a writer full-time with the support of several grants from the Australia Council.

Jones' first novel Julia Paradise (1988) won the SA Festival Award. The exploration of psychic experience in this novel was extended in Prince of the Lilies (1991) in which he employs archaeology and psychoanalysis to explore notions of reality in a Greek setting. Jones' third novel Billy Sunday (1995) examines the psychic crisis at the end of the North American frontier period when the United States emerged into the modern age. Jones returned to a Mediterranean setting with Night Pictures (1997) in which he examines the sexual and psychological motivations of a tumultuous relationship between two lovers in Venice.

Jones' fiction has won many awards, including an NBC Banjo Award for Billy Sunday. He was awarded a prestigious two year writing fellowship from the Australia Council in 2001.

Born in Sydney, Rod Clement spent several years of his childhood in Papua New Guinea, an experience which led to his love of nature. This enabled him to portray images of animals with a precision and flair that appealed to his young readers. Humour prevails in his work and he has received several awards for his richly illustrated picture books, which include Edward the Emu (1988), a verse story, and Edwina the Emu (1996), both written by Sheena Knowles.

Publications written and illustrated by Clement include Counting on Frank (1990), Grandad's Teeth (1997), which was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council 1998 Awards, Frank in Time (1998) and Olga the Brolga (2002). Grandad's Teeth is a detective story about a search for the lost set of teeth.

Clement is an author, illustrator and cartoonist and he has worked as an illustrator for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Geographic and draws cartoons for the Australian Financial Review.

From the 1960s Rod Settle worked in the criminal justice system in Australia and Papua New Guinea. His various roles in the criminal justice system included running an emergency accommodation house for released Victorian prisoners; Stipendiary Probation and Parole Officer, Melbourne; Senior Social Worker with the Children's Courts, Darwin; Associate to the Hon. Mr Justice Raine (Supreme Court); Education Officer with the Advanced Training Section of the Victoria Police and teacher / researcher with the School of Law and Legal Studies at LaTrobe University. In 1993 Settle completed his PhD through the Department of Legal Studies, LaTrobe University.

In addition to the works listed on AustLit Settle also wrote The Criminal Justice Machine (1984), Police Power : Use and Abuse (1990), Police Informers : Negotiation and Power (1995), 'TASOL' : Individual Responsibility Under Criminal Law (1998) and No-Man's Land : Working Inside the Criminal Justice System (2000), as well as designing 'Offender', a game simulating the criminal justice system in Australia.

Rod Moss artist and writer, grew up in Melbourne. At the age of 20 he was dispatched to teach in the remote Mallee town of Ouyen, south of Mildura, it was his first separation from the city. It was during the 1980s that Moss had traveled to the Pilbara and to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. It was his experiences, and relationship with Indigenous remote communities that had informed his art. (Source: UQP website; Rod Moss website).

'Rod Marsden was born in Sydney but did most of his growing up while on holidays in the northern NSW fishing village of Iluka where his dad taught him how to fish. It was on these fishing trips he discovered he actually did like to read and wanted, one day, to be a writer. USA artist Gene Colan's drawings of the sexy, slinky Black Widow made him wonder about becoming an artist. He has a BA in Liberal Studies, a Graduate Diploma in Education and a Master of Arts in Professional Writing. His short stories have been published in Australia, England, Russia and the USA. Rod lives on the south coast of NSW, Australia.'

(Source: 1stbooks website, www.1stbooks.com)

Myer was born on a farm in North East Victoria, and from the age of eight grew up in Melbourne. After leaving school he lived for a few years in northern Australia, then completed an Economics degree at Sydney University. He worked as a speech writer and electoral assistant for the Australian Democrats, then began a career in journalism.

He has made radio documentaries for the ABC, Public Radio News and 3RRR. He has also written for The Age, The Sunday Age and The Herald, covering energy and infrastructure for The Age's business section, as well as writing features, profiles and analysis pieces. His interests include history, the arts, politics and spirituality.

Rod Ainsworth is a playwright.

Cricketer.

Wicket-keeper and batsman, he was noted for his partnership with pace bowler Dennis K. Lillee; they made their debuts and retired at the same time, and took a combined 95 test wickets.