At the heart of our publications and releases are the storytellers, thinkers, and observers who bring distinct perspectives to the organisation. Our authors and content creators come from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, united by a commitment to compelling narratives, grounded insights, and deep craft. Whether sharing transformative life lessons, cultural explorations, or richly imagined fiction, each writer creates work designed to engage, challenge, and resonate with curious readers.
Explore their profiles below to discover their latest releases, upcoming projects, and the ideas shaping their work.
Graham S. Green is an educator, author, and cultural advocate living amongst the tree-lined avenues of Toowoomba, Queensland. Having grown up in the Central West of New South Wales, lived in Canberra, and travelled extensively throughout Asia, he has developed a profound appreciation for the power of language to bridge divides and foster understanding across cultures.
With an international background teaching at secondary and tertiary levels across Australia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Graham specialises in language and cultural integration programmes for diverse cohorts. Through his extensive career, he has witnessed firsthand the complexities facing refugees when their worlds are uprooted. Building on years of experience teaching adult refugees as they navigate resettlement, his work now extends to empowering refugee youth—most notably collaborating with Yazidi young people. By utilising diverse media and digital storytelling platforms, he helps them articulate their experiences, preserve their voices, and build confidence in unfamiliar systems.
Holding postgraduate TESOL qualifications from Charles Sturt University and a Master’s degree from the University of New South Wales, Graham explores the historical, social, and human dimensions of displacement throughout his published works. He regularly shares his reflections, research, and essays on culture and education via his blog at graham.green/my-library.
Living in the Garden City, Graham finds peace in the slow process of nurturing growth—a metaphor that frequently finds its way into his storytelling. Outside of writing and teaching, he is a connoisseur of world cinema and maintains an extensive music collection. A true homebody at heart, he enjoys spending quiet weekends tending to the house and garden, cultivating a space where creativity can thrive.
Michael Peterson is a leading researcher, educator, and consultant in intercultural relations and bicultural family dynamics. He lives in Canberra, Australia, with his family, where his work focuses on bridging the gap between macro-level cultural frameworks and the lived, everyday realities of modern relationships. Michael has enjoyed a distinguished, multi-decade career studying and teaching at the Australian National University (ANU), where his academic journey began in the late 1990s as a student of Asian Studies. Over the last twenty-five years, he has dedicated himself to researching the intricate tapestries of community, ritual, language, and social structures across Australia, Asia, and beyond. His deep, empathetic observation of how cultures meet in intimate domestic spaces has made him a pioneering voice in the field of cross-cultural communication. In addition to his academic contributions, Michael has worked extensively advising and consulting for the Australian Government on cultural affairs, multicultural policy, and community integration. This unique dual perspective—combining rigorous academic taxonomy with high-level policy advisory—has allowed him to help shape national-level frameworks while remaining deeply connected to the human stories that give those frameworks life. When he is not writing, teaching, or advising, Michael is an avid outdoor enthusiast. He loves mountain bike riding on the rugged, scenic trails surrounding Canberra. Above all, he cherishes spending time at home with his wife, Leanne, and their three young children—Ben, Dan, and Liz—who serve as his daily inspiration for building spaces of love, understanding, and shared heritage.
Reza Gharib was born in Shiraz in 1970 and spent over two decades working as a civil engineer and municipal planner, quietly circulating verses within independent literary circles. Following the sustained suppression of student and intellectual movements in Tehran, his outspoken writing and refusal to submit to state censorship placed him under the direct scrutiny of authorities. Facing imminent arrest, he fled Iran in 2011, leaving behind his professional standing, ancestral home, and extended family to seek asylum in the southern hemisphere.
Now fifty-six, he lives in the historic regional city of Ipswich, Queensland, where he works night shifts within the industrial transport corridors of the Bremer River basin. Navigating the quiet dissonance between his previous life and his present displacement, he spends his daylight hours tending potted fig and pomegranate saplings beneath the subtropical sun, observing a landscape that bears no resemblance to the foothills of the Zagros mountains.
In the solitude of his timber cottage, he channels the weight of dislocation into evocative poetry that bridges classical Persian forms with modernist free verse. His work examines the bitter geography of separation—the silence of digital blackouts back home, the bureaucratic paper walls of modern immigration, and the slow erasure of identity that often accompanies physical safety. Published through Ethnographic Media Group, his writing stands as an intimate record of survival, exile, and the fragile endurance of cultural memory. Note: Reza Gharib is a pseudonym adopted in accordance with Persian literary tradition and for the ongoing safety of extended family residing abroad.
