Felicity Martin
Felicity was born with a teaspoon in one hand and a pen in the other. She has been known to wield both these items savagely and with great aplomb. Noting the lack of writing about and by LGBT+ authors, she started the blog Are There Lesbians?, which judges books, films and video games on just one quality: whether or not there are lesbians. Since then, Felicity has expanded her writing into the freelance sector but maintains an interest in Queer rights and pop-culture. She has managed to combine all of these interests with a burgeoning love of the horror genre in her website Strange Queer Things. Felicity has BA in English (Hons) and History, which she uses to argue about medieval literature on the internet.
Kaneana May
Kaneana studied Television Production at university and graduated with honours in screenwriting. She went on to work in television, including roles as a script assistant on All Saints, a storyliner on Headland, and a scriptwriter on Home and Away. She’s now focusing her attention on writing both young adult and contemporary women’s fiction. Her debut women’s fiction (or ‘lifelit’) novel, The One, is due for release in July 2019 (Harlequin). Kaneana lives on the Mid North Coast of NSW with her husband and three children. For more about Kaneana, check out kaneanamay.com or join her over on Facebook and Instagram.
KM Stamer-Squair
KM Stamer-Squair is a Literary Studies graduate from Monash University. In 2017, she spent her honours year looking at the relation between anthropocentricism and environmental degradation. She dreams of nurturing a self-sustaining garden, quotes Hamlet with too much enthusiasm, and lives surrounded by piles of books.
Sarah Taviani (Assistant Editor)
Sarah is an editor, writer and social media manager. She studied literature in her undergrad and post-grad, and is now suffering from an acute case of HECS debt. While she hasn’t won any awards for her writing yet, she has come first at several Harry Potter trivia nights. Mediocre Heroes is her first published work of fiction.
Sarah also takes way too many photos of books; visit Commas and Ampersands on Instagram for more.
Vivian Wei
Vivian is currently studying architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney. She enjoys all things in shades of yellow and loves exploring the arts and design world. In her spare time, Vivian likes to take photos of friends and food—but mostly the latter. The Chinese Menu for the Afterlife is her first published short story.
Instagram: @omumeshi
Editor’s Acknowledgements
Firstly, I’d like to thank the readers, writers, bloggers and Bookstagrammers of the #LoveOzYA community. You were the reason I dreamed up this crazy scheme in the first place. A book is nothing without someone to read it, so thank you for supporting local authors by picking up a copy of Underdog! Your encouragement throughout the whole process has been truly overwhelming and has taken my little idea and turned it into something really wonderful.
Thanks must go to Caitlin, Marilyn, Lauren, Elisabeth, Julia, and all at Black Inc/Nero; Alissa Dinallo, for our glorious cover; my big brother, Judd, for our awesome logo; Fleur Ferris, for her inspiring foreword; Centre for Youth Literature and The Little Bookroom for thier support; Karen Wyld, Michael Earp, Beau Kondos, and #LoveOzYA KWEEN Danielle Binks, for their wonderful advice; my Underdog team—Brylie Harris, Monique Deane and Sarah Taviani—who supported this idea from its inception through to its realisation; my fellow Underdog authors, who put their faith in me and trusted me with their precious words; my insightful, meticulous, and incomparable assistant editor, Sarah Taviani, without whom this anthology would never have made it to print; my incredible parents (and proofreaders extraordinaire) Vicki and Peter; and finally, my husband, Daniel, for believing in me wholeheartedly, every second of every day. You inspire me beyond belief, and I would never have achieved this without you by my side!
Tobias xoxo
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