Alison Bean
Alison Bean spent the first 22 years of her life in Fulham Gardens, an Adelaide suburb notable only for its backyard greenhouses full of poorly-disguised marijuana plants.After a glittering career as Radio 5UV’s TV critic, Alison left Adelaide for London’s trendy North London, where she is now an arts administrator, writer, anti-war activist and some-time media terrorist. One day she hopes to open a shop in Camden Market selling frog cakes, Coopers Pale Ale, Bickford’s lime-juice cordial and vegetarian pie-floaters to similarly-minded Adelaide ex-pats. 
Barbara Santich
Barbara Santich is an internationally recognised food writer living in Adelaide. She has five books to her name, the most recent being In the Land of the Magic Pudding: A gastronomic miscellany (Wakefield Press, 2000), and is currently Lecturer in Gastronomy at Adelaide University.Chris Gregory
Chris Gregory was born in Mount Gambier in 1970. He moved to Melbourne in the late eighties, fell completely in love with the city, and has barely left it since. Yet he remains nostalgic about his ‘white trash heritage’, which he attributes to ‘fundamental perverseness’.Christian Legg
Christian Legg came to South Australia from Melbourne almost 30 years ago and, strangely, has been content to remain there ever since.He works in the IT sector and is currently employed by one of the few remaining Adelaide based organisations that has not outsourced all of its IT functions to an overseas based company, or been bought out by an Eastern states-based conglomerate.
A quiet family man, he appreciates Adelaide’s sleepy, back water nature, and was one of the five residents of Adelaide who was glad to see the Grand Prix move to Melbourne.
Helen Vnuk
Helen Vnuk was born in Adelaide in 1970. She moved to the Riverland in 1989 to work as a TV journalist, newsreader and children’s show host.In 1997 she left South Australia for Sydney where she has edited the prestigious publications Dog’s Life and Australian Women’s Forum. She has fond memories of South Australia and plans never to return.
Julie Graney
Julie Graney was born in Mount Gambier quite a while ago. She was a fish out of (Blue Lake) water from birth, and fled ‘The Gamb’ at 17 to pursue education and employment opportunities and a larger gene pool. She moved to Melbourne in 1991 and is an immigration consultant enjoying the multiculturalism of Melbourne.Ryan Priemus
Inexplicably, Ryan Priemus is a kiwi. Whilst travelling the world on a six year working holiday Ryan keeps a website detailing the sights and events of his travels for friends back home.A webpage with 2-3 pictures of Johnny Haysman outlining the SA character for friends and family became part of a ‘joke email’ circulated around the world. With over 2,500 hits per day for a fortnight the site had to be torn down and restructured, with the Johnny pages now hosted on a specially purchased domain.
The Johnny site has had over 54,000 hits with many visitors leaving positive tributes to this South Australian icon.
Simon Healy
Simon Healy was born in Mt Gambier in 1970, and after a brief stint there and in Port Lincoln, did most of his growing up in Adelaide.He left Adelaide for Sydney in 1994 because he thought Sydney was a much more interesting place, an opinion that he holds to this day. He works as a criminal lawyer, and really enjoys going back to South Australia to visit.