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Penny Olsen is an Australian ornithologist and author. Cousin to the late Cohen sisters, she has access to unique material and insights on their lives. She has written about thirty books on natural history subjects, including two major biographies.

Penny is the author of Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters

Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong, and Tasmanianwriter and farmer. He has published thirty-six books,including the bestsellingDark Emu,which won theNSW Premier’s Award for Literature in 2016, andYoungDark Emu: A Truer History, which won the both theBooksellers Association Prize and the CBCA Non-fictionaward in 2020.As a farmer, he grows Australian Aboriginal grains andtubers. He is also a Board Member of First LanguagesAustralia, Black Duck Foods, and Twofold AboriginalCorporation.

Bruce is the author of Imperial Harvest