Helen Nickas is editor and publisher of the series Writing the Greek Diaspora. She has published a number of other anthologies by Greek-Australian writers. She lectures in Greek Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her research interests include women's writings and Greek writers. She is the founder of independent publisher 'Owl Publishing' in 1992 and is the featured scholar in letters and in the 2008 Antipodes journal, issue 55. She saw this venture as an extension of her research on Greek-Australian writers, many of whom have documented the post-war period in Australia with acute sensitivity and perspicacity, as well as high literary skill.