Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980

Iain McIntyre is a Melbourne-based author, musician, and community radio broadcaster who has written a variety of books on activism, history, and music. Recent publications include How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Protest, Graffiti and Political Mischief-Making from across Australia (2013), Wild About You: The Sixties Beat Explosion in Australia and New Zealand (2010), and Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966–1970 (2006). He also helped compile the Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965–1967 CD compilation (2012).

Andrew Nette is a writer and pulp scholar based in Melbourne, Australia. His first novel, Ghost Money, a crime story set in Cambodia in the mid-1990s, was published in 2012 and his second, Gunshine State, was published in 2016. He is one of the founders of Crime Factory Publications, a small press specialising in crime fiction, and coedited Hard Labour (2012), an anthology of Australian short crime fiction, and LEE (2014), an anthology of fiction inspired by American cinema icon Lee Marvin. His short fiction, reviews and nonfiction writing has appeared in numerous print and online publications. He is currently undertaking a PhD on the history of Australian pulp fiction.

Peter Doyle is an Australian author, musician, and visual artist. He lectures in print media production at MacQuarie University and is a part-time curator of the Police and Justice Museum. The first of his four crime novels in the Billy Glasheen series, Get Rich Quick, won the 1996 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel. He has also had four nonfiction books published, including the acclaimed City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs, 1912–1948 (2007).