Andrew Green took his first degree in geography at what is now Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge before training as an occupational therapist in York. He worked in mental health for six years, in the UK and in Uganda, and started work in neuropsychiatry at the Burden Neurological Hospital in Bristol in 1992. Since 1999 he has been involved in innovative work running a group for the cognitive behavioural management of insomnia. He has become increasingly interested in sleep and the behavioural management of sleep disorders. He lives in Bristol.
Cary Brown practiced as an occupational therapist and department manager in Canada and Saudi Arabia and has held academic appointments in Canada and the UK. She completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool and is currently an associate professor in the Occupational Therapy program at the University of Alberta. These diverse experiences underpin her research program of knowledge transfer, sleep deficiency and pain across the lifespan. Cary publishes and presents regularly at national and international conferences on these topics. Her work in knowledge translation strategies received the Canadian Pain Society - Pain Awareness Award 2010. She lives in Edmonton, Canada.
Fiona Wright is an Australian writer, critic and poet, born in 1983. She published her first collection of poetry, Knuckled, in 2011. She is one of the winners of the 2016 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards for her second book, Small of Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger. That same book also won the 2016 Queensland Literary Award in the nonfiction category.