The Transit Lounge

The Transit Lounge team consists of five regular writers supported dedicated (and much appreciated) contributors from across Australia and the world. If you'd like to write for The Transit Lounge, please contact the editor in the first instance. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

Alison Atkinson-Phillips
Editor

Alison Atkinson-Phillips loves travelling and loathes airports. She has lived and worked in Perth, Melbourne and the UK, editing and writing on a range of subjects from painting and pop culture to parenting and politics. She is interested in how faith and spirituality intersect with all these things and more. She currently lives in Bassendean, the birthplace of Rolf Harris, and aims to be as multi-talented and entertaining as the man who brought us the magic of the wobble board. Alison shares her little blue house with two small people, a big bearded man, and a shiny silver laptop computer. When not editing The Transit Lounge she manages the Media and Communications Unit of the Uniting Church in WA.

Penelope Monger
Associate Editor

Penelope loves travelling and doesn't even mind airports, depending on what the shopping situation is like. In her previous life as a broadcaster, she has worked in many regional areas of Australia and has also lived in Melbourne, Perth, London and now Sydney. She is a passionate about the world around us, issues of social justice and making extreme affluence history. Penelope is the communications manager for the Uniting Church in Australia National Assembly.

Meera Atkinson
Staff Writer

Meera Atkinson is a Sydney-based writer. Her non-fiction essays, short stories, and poetry have appeared in many publications including Salon.com, The Age, and Heat, and she is a regular contributor to Griffith REVIEW. She has worked as a writer and publicist for various non-profit organisations, and is currently employed part-time as a journalist for the Uniting Church National Assembly.

Nicole Reardon
Writer

The newest member to The Transit Lounge team, Nikki recently graduated from a degree in Ancient History. She has a passion for religion, history and archeology and is looking forward to travelling to somewhere, sometime! Her other love is writing and, when not writing for The Transit Lounge, she works as communication officer with the Uniting Church in Australia National Assembly.

Mardi Lumsden
Writer

Mardi Lumsden is a jack of many trades. She is a journalist, singer, songwriter, and gymnastics coach. She has visited 62 airports in her 27 years. Her favourite is Singapore, her least favourite is LAX and her most interesting is Goroka (Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea) - where the ground staff wear ear muffs and thongs. She currently lives in Brisbane.

Mardi is interested in young people and their ideas on faith, and loves all things pop culture. The closest she has come to interviewing someone seriously famous was Sclub7, but the interview was cancelled. It was scheduled for 11 September 2001.

When not watching films or pondering deep meaningful things for The Transit Lounge, Mardi is the Associate Editor of Journey, the newspaper of the Queensland Synod of the Uniting Church.