Cultural historian Tony Moore has been a documentary filmmaker for ABC Television and Commissioning Editor of Pluto Press. Moore completed his PhD (on the history of Australia's bohemian tradition) at The University of Sydney.
In 2011, Moore was shortlisted in the New South Wales Premier's Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, for Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868. The same book had been supported by the 2007 NSW Premier's History Fellowship (Arts NSW).