Susan Hawthorne is the author of six collections of poetry including Bird, The Butterfly Effect, Unsettling the Land, Earth’s Breath and Cow. She has worked in the publishing industry for twenty-five years and is also known as an aerialist. Two books, Bird and Earth’s Breath have been broadcast on the radio program, Poetica. In 2009 she was an Asialink Literature Resident at the University of Madras, India and she is Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University, Townsville. Her poetry has been published in Best Australian Poems anthologies on several occasions and Earth’s Breath was shortlisted for the 2010 Judith Wright Poetry Award. Bronwyn Winter is Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Hijab and the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarf Debate (2008) she has written widely on feminist theory, women in international and national politics, human rights, women and the politics of race, nation and culture, Islamism, globalisation and critiques of liberalism.