Dr Judith Buckrich was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1950 and emigrated to Melbourne in 1958. She has several entries in the Encyclopedia of Melbourne and Remembering Melbourne 1850-1960. Her book The Village of Ripponlea won a Victorian Community History Award in 2016 and Acland Street- the Grand Lady of St Kilda won the 2018 Fellowship of Australian Writers (VIC) Award for non-fiction. She has also published with Melbourne Books before, releasing The Long and Perilous Journey- A History of Port Melbourne in 2002. At present, she is working on a film about bohemian St Kilda. Judith has written her own one-woman shows, short stories, feature articles and essays and worked as a curator, editor and translator. She was Chair of the PEN International Women Writers' Committee from 2003 to 2009 and President of the Melbourne PEN Centre from 1993 to 2005. She is the immediate past President of the Prahran Mechanics Institute Victorian History Library.