Kylie Mirmohamadi (Diving, Falling) and Luke Horton (Time Together) talk to Trish Bolton about starting again from the messiness of mid-life.

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KYLIE MIRMOHAMADI is a writer and academic whose work and research spans domestic Australian landscapes, online fan fiction, and 19th-century English literature. She has a PhD in History and is currently an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in English and Creative Writing at La Trobe University. Kylie lives with her family in Melbourne where she often finds ideas for writing when walking among the tree-lined creeks of her inner suburb with her poodle. Kylie has published widely in the academic sector, most recently on the long afterlives of Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. She was the recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship in 2022 and her unpublished manuscripts have been highly commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award (2020). Diving, Falling is her first novel.

LUKE HORTON is a writer and musician from Naarm/Melbourne. He is the author of two critically acclaimed novels,The Fogging (2020) and Time Together (2025), and his work has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, and Meanjin. The former editor of The Lifted Brow Review of Books, he currently teaches creative writing at RMIT and the Faber Writing Academy, and is a member of acclaimed indie-rock band Love of Diagrams.