About the Author

Fiona Crawford is a researcher, writer, editor and social media strategist whose work spans social and environmental issues, the arts, and football. Fiona has written for many publications, clients, and websites, including The Big Issue, Peppermint, Kill Your Darlings, Bookseller+Publisher, Writing Queensland, the Matildas and the W League, FourFourTwo, The Conversation and the Homeless World Cup.

Lee McGowan is a researcher and writer at the Queensland University of Technology. His current funded project partners with Football Queensland and the State Library of Queensland to build a history of women’s football. He has written football-related fiction and non-fiction for publications, including The Blizzard, The Conversation, Smith Journal, The Writing Platform and New Australian Writing. His football projects have featured on SBS News, Australian Story, the Courier-Mail and a number of ABC radio shows.

Reviews

Never Say Die is the book the women's game has been waiting for. Crawford and McGowan bring stories from across a century of football into one place to highlight a rich, remarkable, previously uncaptured history.' - Craig Foster