Gaynor is a Melbourne based writer with a penchant for vintage glamour and all things Parisian. It would be a grave injustice to describe Gaynor without also mentioning her addiction to products – the fancier and prettier the packaging the better. A marketer’s dream, she believes all the claims on the labels; that retinol will vanish her wrinkles and the latest peptide formula will take years off her face, because, well, she wants to. False prophets perhaps, but products are her religion and her faith is unwavering.
Gaynor started out her career as a Recruitment Consultant, but after travelling overseas for a year, she returned home no longer wanting to work twelve hour days in a job she didn’t enjoy. A creative person with a number of passions, she set down the path of finding her niche. She started writing The Modern Woman’s Survival Guide (think Bridget Jones meets Sex and the City) after the umpteenth person told her, ‘You know, you should really write a book,’ and quickly realised that this was what she was meant to do. Her fingers struggled daily to keep up with the thoughts that desperately wanted to become words on pages, to take centre stage in a book that she knew was going to become the new voice of womankind. Her calling, her destiny, her whatever you want to call it, Gaynor writes because she must write.
You can keep up to date with Gaynor’s adventures at The Modern Woman’s Survival Guide.
In 2007, Jordi found herself sandwiched between two men on a red eye headed straight for New York. The duration of the flight was spent curled into her seat, smiling passively as the two men loudly waved their passports in her face, competing against each other for title of ‘Biggest Passport Stamp Collection’. It was there that Jordi made it her personal mission to eclipse both men and procure this title – quietly. This mission is currently on hold as she sets out to accomplish another costly feat – owning the world’s largest collection of obnoxious gold jewellery.
In the meantime, Jordi is excited to join the Onya Travel Department as she forays into the world of travel writing and judging cities based on their latte-making competency. Australia now, rest of the world later.
Call me Lee. Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand on me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
Olivia Hambrett finds writing ‘About Me’ blurbs mentally exhausting and often cruel reminders that she cannot say ‘Olivia is a Booker Prize winning novelist who has penned several Academy Award winning screenplays. She lives in Santorini with Prince Harry/Seely Booth.’ She can, however, say she lives in Australia, for the time being, and she knows Seely Booth isn’t real. Olivia is the Editor in Chief of Trespass Magazine and spends most of her time working on various literary projects that will probably never see the light of day.
According to her 95 year-old grandmother, Rosanna is a wonderful grandchild because she’s keeping the family tradition of writing alive and well. Having started penning creatively at a young age, Rosanna developed a keen interest in article writing and editing at twelve, when she began writing very important articles about The Saddle Club and horse riding camps for kids magazines. Nowadays, Rosanna aspires to become a novelist, fashion features writer and editor, and one day advocate for animal rights in American Vogue (because someone has to educate that wide readership). She receives sick gratification from correcting those who are unable to string a sentence together properly.
Aside from her proclivity for collecting words, Rosanna plays piano and cello, horse rides competitively, eyes the catwalk for innovation, and travels almost as often and widely as she reads. She enjoys crunchy Pink Lady apples in autumn, unagi, the music of Elgar, Smetana and Rachmaninov, and the company of her animals.
Sharon Green is a print and online journalist from Melbourne who is currently testing the waters in London, United Kingdom. As a former Fairfax Media journalist, Sharon has written across a range of community newspapers including Melbourne Weekly, City Weekly and the Melbourne Times. She was also responsible for filling her own masthead, the Point Cook Weekly. Her work has appeared in a number of other leading Australian publications including The Age, Herald Sun, Geelong Advertiser, BRIDE, Melbourne City Newspaper and Desktop magazine.
When not pitching to editors for commissions or working to beat her next deadline, Sharon can be found blogging about the latest in digital media and journalism via her personal website www.sharonjgreen.com.
