Unbowed

Natasha Lester is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of nine books that have been translated into 21 languages. Her latest novel is The Chateau on Sunset.

Ingrid Horrocks is the author of the memoir Where We Swim, a literary history, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in Lithub, The Ninth Letter, The Sydney Review of Books, The Spinoff, Landfall, and the Guardian. She completed a PhD at Princeton and teaches for the Faber Writing Academy. In 2024, Ingrid was the Creative NZ Writer in Residence at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, and in 2025 she was an International Exchange resident at Varuna National Writers House. All Her Lives was the winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Ingrid lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, with her partner and twin daughters. All Her Lives is her first book of fiction.

Dr Eleanor Limprecht is the author of five novels. Her short fiction, essays and journalism have been published internationally. Her work has been shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and awarded the ASA Blake-Beckett scholarship. She teaches creative writing and is a visiting fellow at SLNSW.