Bruce Pascoe is a Bunurong, Yuin and Tasmanian Aboriginal writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. He is the enterprise professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. He is best known for his work Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture (Magabala Books 2014). Lyn Harwood has been reading stories for over sixty years. For many of those years she co-edited Australian Short Stories with Bruce Pascoe. Now she paints, takes photographs and wanders through the bush searching for orchids.