Blaze Jake Kwaymullina is a children's writer and also works in the sphere of oral history; he enjoys helping people to get their stories told. He is a lecturer at the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia, and in his spare time he likes reading, rock-climbing, yoga and taking his two dogs, Chris and Billy, swimming at the local dog beach. Blaze lives in Perth, Western Australia. Sally Morgan is both a visual artist and a writer; she has written books for both children and adults. Her autobiography, My Place, is an Australian classic. Her work as an artist has won international acclaim and is represented in galleries in Australia, the US and elsewhere. Sally is a descendant of the Palyku people of northwest Western Australia. She has three children (Blaze Kwaymullina is one of them) and lives in Perth.