Lian Low, Peril’s Prose Editor began her editing life volunteering for the publications of non-profit and community orgs like RMIT’s International student publications and Vibewire.  When she started working with ArtsHub, she copyedited and monitored their online jobs content.  She also wrote for ArtsHub Australia and ArtsHub UK.  The first short play she wrote, Hyper-reality won her an Under 25 competition, and became a vehicle for her coming out queer to her family … and a Victorian Arts Centre audience.  She has written collaboratively in theatre projects at St Martins Youth Arts and Brunswick Women’s Theatre.  Her writing is also published in When Our Children Come Out (ed Maria Pallota-Chiarolli), Growing Up Asian in Australia (ed Alice Pung), and queer publications like bnews and MCV.

Eleanor Jackson, Peril’s Poetry Editor has recently relocated to Brisbane from Melbourne, where she was a regular feature at Melbourne’s numerous poetry venues. Two-time winner of the Midsumma Poetry Out Loud slam, Eleanor has featured at the Overload Poetry, Queensland Poetry, Melbourne Writers and Brisbane Writers festivals and was the producer of the Melbourne Poetry Map, a series of audio poetry walks supported by the City of Melbourne. Her audio poems have been published in Going Down Swinging and the Cordite Poetry Review, while recordings of her work have been featured on RRR’s “Aural Text”, 3CR’s “Spoken Word”, ABC Radio National’s “Night Air” and the online poetry channel, “IndieFeed: Performance Poetry”. Recently, she curated the spoken word component of the Brisbane Emerging Arts Festival.  Visit her at: http://eleanorjjackson.com/ 

Owen Leong, Peril Visual Arts Editor, is a contemporary artist living and working in Melbourne with a Master of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW. His art explores liminality, abjection and transformation. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally including Chicago, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai and Singapore. Visit him at www.owenleong.com

Hoa Pham, Peril’s founding editor and Editoral Adviser, is an award-winning author.  Her novels include Vixen and Quicksilver.  Hoa’s play, Silence, was performed at La Mama in 2009-10 and is on the VCE list for 2010.  Hoa is studying for her DCA in creative writing at the University of Western Sydney. Visit her at www.hoapham.net

Tseen Khoo, Peril Editorial Adviser, is a research developer at RMIT University (Melbourne) and the founding convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN: asianaustralianstudies.org). Her academic work focused on diasporic Asian cultures, the politics of representing Asian Australian heritage, and multicultural/race issues. Tseen is also on Twitter (twitter.com/tseenkhoo) and blogs at The Banana Lounge (tseenster.wordpress.com).

Alister Air is the Peril Website Editor.