Hien Minh Thi Tran (Minh Hiền) is an educator, a researcher and the author of My Mother (shortlisted for the 2024 Furphy Literary Award), The Vietnamese Australians series and My Heritage: Vietnam fatherland motherland. She is the recipient of multiple national manuscript development programs: the 2023 Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) Publishable, the 2022 QWC Publishable (long-listed), the 2021 Fellowship and Access Manuscript Development initiative through the QWC, the 2019 Hardcopy initiative through the ACT Writers Centre, the 2006 Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Mentorship. She has worked as an engineer, an IT consultant, a systems accountant, a systems manager and a family business manager and owner. While working, she studied for university qualifications in the fields of Engineering, Accounting, Commerce, Management, Arts, and Education and completed a qualification as a professional member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (CPA). She holds a Master of Education, a Master of Higher Education, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing, a Master of Commerce, a Master of Engineering Science, a Graduate Diploma in Management, a Graduate Conversion Course qualification in Accounting and a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours from Australian universities in NSW, VIC, QLD and TAS. She is featured in the 2008 Who's Who in Tasmania. She has presented academic papers at international conferences and published research papers in international journals in the fields of education, engineering, computing, accounting and management since 1988. Dr Farshid Anvari is a researcher, an engineer and an educational consultant. He visits Vietnam regularly to learn Vietnamese culture, participate in teaching activities and present papers at international conferences. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Philosophy in Computing, a Graduate Diploma of Information Technology, a Graduate Diploma of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a co-inventor of Healthy Me, an online research platform to support consumer health decision making. He loves to capture the beauty and happiness of life as it is seen through photography.