CONTRIBUTORS

DON WATSON

(“What Lessons Will We Learn?”, p.8) is the author of, most recently, The Bush, A Single Tree, the Quarterly Essay Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump and There It Is Again, a collection of his writing.

NICK FEIK

(“Another Month of Plague”, p.10) is the editor of The Monthly.

OSCAR SCHWARTZ

(“Electoral Distancing”, p.12) is a New York– based writer and researcher.

SARAH KRASNOSTEIN

(“Power Outage”, p.14) is a writer, lawyer and researcher with a doctorate in criminal law. She is the author of The Trauma Cleaner.

NICOLA REDHOUSE

(“Quiet Life”, p.16) is a Melbourne-based writer and the author of Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind.

RICHARD COOKE

(“The Ministry of Pandemics”, p.18) is The Monthly’s contributing editor.

LECH BLAINE

(“Strange Tides”, p.26) is a writer from country Queensland.

MARGARET SIMONS

(“This Personable Hardliner”, p.36) is an author, journalist and journalism academic. She has written numerous books, articles and essays, including the Quarterly Essay Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray–darling Basin.

ANNA GOLDSWORTHY

(“He Is Risen!”, p.44) is a pianist and writer. Her most recent book is Melting Moments. Her most recent album is Beethoven Piano Trios.

ROBERT SKINNER

(“Rough Draught”, p.46) was born and raised on the Adelaide Plains. He is now based in Melbourne.

SHANE DANIELSEN

(“Consolations in Isolation”, p.50) is a screenwriter and former artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

ANWEN CRAWFORD

(“The Ripple Effect”, p.53) is The Monthly’s music critic.

OSLO DAVIS

(“In Light of Recent Events”, p.58) is an illustrator, artist and cartoonist.