Julia Baird: Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

Julia Baird is a globally renowned author and award-winning journalist. A much-beloved broadcaster in her native Australia, Julia presents for ABC TV and writes columns for The New York Times. In 2007, she became senior editor of Newsweek in New York. Her work has earned her four Walkley Our Watch awards, a Walkley Award for team election reporting, and two further Walkley nominations. She lives near the sea with two children, a tyrannical cat and an abnormally large dog.

Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based novelist, essayist, mentor and editor whose work includes A Hundred Small Lessons and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions. Her work has been published in Australia, the UK, the US and in translation, and has been recognised by awards including the Australian Society for Literature’s Colin Roderick Prize, the UNSW Press/Bragg Prize for Science Writing and Eucalypt Australia’s Dahl Medal. A former editor of Griffith Review, she lives and works in Brisbane.