Dr Gen Ford is a single, happily childfree woman living in Melbourne. She has a PhD in international relations and has spent her career loitering around universities in various capacities, holding strong beliefs in the power of education to change people's lives.
Gen started Solo Advocacy Australia in early 2022 in recognition of the way people doing life solo are still largely unrecognised and disadvantaged in society and as a love letter to the role that friendship and her community of solo friends has played in her own life.
When she's not trying to survive on a single income or working on Solo, you'll likely find her browsing a garden or an op shop, hiking, or deep in a book.
In mid 2020 Gen gave a large piece of her heart to her little cat Evie and has no regrets.

Donna Ward established the micro-press Inkerman & Blunt Publishers in 2013, and indigo, the journal of Western Australian creative writing in 2007. From 2011–2012 she edited the online poetry magazine, Sotto, for Poetry Australia. She has past lives as a psychotherapist, social worker, and organizational consultant. Her prose has appeared in Griffith Review, Southerly Magazine, Island Magazine, Huffington Post, and Westerly Magazine. Her hybrid memoir, She I Dare Not Name, A Spinster’s Meditations on Life, was published by Allen & Unwin 2020.